“In the Fullness of Summer, We Plan For Winter” by Justin Gardiner (poetry, ’05)

A poem by Justin Gardiner (poetry, ’05) appears in The Collagist:

In the Fullness of Summer, We Plan For Winter

One-hundred-and-six in the shade today, too much
even for the full green of this canopy, as I make
my slow way up from the river,

clearing the trail, which is my caretaker’s lot.
“Some species of the desert,” a field guide I have
on the Southwest claims, “adapt to the intense heat

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