Reflections: Bennington Lake on a Spring Evening | Sandra Rokoff-Lizut

Silky slivers of newborn grass
caress horseshoe-patterned
pathways.  Baby leaves nuzzle rosehips.

Bare berry bushes silently
tend pregnancies
of summer’s succulent bounty.
Downy foliage dapples light.

Legions of last year’s
brown bristly thistles
stand guard at water’s edge.
Swamp owls soundlessly
swoop and soar.
 
A lone fisherman tilts back
in battered metal and woven mesh   
casting fine strands of filament
into the listless lake
Small insects perform
their silent ceremony.

The horizon undulates beneath
blankets of buckskin and emerald velvet   
stitched together by poplar rows.
inviting the sun to surrender.

Indian Review | Author | Sandra Rokoff-Lizut, retired educator and children’s book author (published by Macmillan, Holt Reinhart & Winston, and Hallmark Inc.), is currently both a printmaker and poet. Visit us to read more…

Sandra Rokoff-Lizut, retired educator and children’s book author (published by Macmillan, Holt Reinhart & Winston, and Hallmark Inc.), is currently both a printmaker and poet. She is a member of Oregon Poetry Association, Mary’s Peak Poets, Poetic License, Gertrude’s, and a weekly writing salon. Rokoff-Lizut volunteers, by teaching poetry to middle-schoolers, at the Boys and Girls Club in Corvallis, Oregon. She also studies poetry Oregon State University. Previous publications include Illya’s Honey, The Bicycle Review, Wilderness House Review, The Tower Journal, The Penwood Review, and Wild Goose Poetry Review.