August 6, 1945, Hiroshima; August 6, 1991 the first-ever web page online. So this month swings between darkness and light, destruction and creation. It’s a time of richly starred night skies and, I hope, brilliantly sunny days, a time of letting go, and looking forward, sometimes in strange ways …
SIX WAYS OF DOING
a reversed nine 
bounces back and up
the ball of wool unwinds
a kitten’s paw
a whirl or a reel
a tornado on the screen
a cloud tethered
to the red balloon
twice trinity
or a triple pair
half a dozen eggs
on the stair
first published in Stoneboat
A Summer Father … Here is poetry … interweaving images culled from a wartime childhood with bittersweet memories of a “summer father”. Lynda Monahan
