Love in a spell of summer rain by Louise Longson

Love in a spell of summer rain

like cascading jewel-

                         drops

the drooped leaves 

pour fluid magic

on this enchanted hour

           in the dry-dark 

shadows of the wych elm

our bodies conjure

the graceful arc

of a weighted flower

Louise Longson is widely published in print/online. She is the author of chapbooks Hanging Fire and Songs from the Witch Bottle. In 2023, she won the Kari-Ann Flickinger Memorial Prize with her soon-to-be-published collection These are her thoughts as she falls and was Pushcart Prize nominated. She works for a charity that offers support services to people whose physical and emotional distress is caused by loneliness and social isolation, often rooted in historic trauma. Her poetry brings together her personal and professional experiences, translated through the twin prisms of myth and nature.

Twitter @LouisePoetical      https://witchbottlepoetry.wordpress.com/