August went on for so long with warm mornings
of poached eggs, bacon and apricot jam
that it had to borrow from September, snatching
sunlight in order to keep the peaches growing.
October collected early on a Thursday afternoon
when it rained from a few motley white patches.
No bucket will be big enough to bail out the drains
when November floods the market.
Joshua Wait studied English at UC Berkeley. He wrote his undergraduate thesis on the relationship between art and
poetry in the New York School. He received a Masters in Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has served in programs for children, youth, and college students, in an organization addressing climate change, and in the tech industry as a CTO. He currently divides his time between his family and his artistic practice.
