Invitation by Joan McNerney
Invitation Would you like to unwind an afternoon at the lake? Solar sparks spilling over us in showers of golden sizzle. Put on short shorts, skimpy tops, stick our toes into oozy mud. Breezes will shake treetops while we listen to birdsongs. Why not float on new grass facing an Alice blue sky? Read celestial comic strips from mounds of clouds. We can count sunbeams, chase yellow butterflies. Devour bowls of cherries painting our lips crimson. This noontime is perfumed with illions of wild flowers. Let’s go away all day...be embraced by the goddess. Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze, Blueline, and Halcyon Days. Three Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals, and numerous Kind of A Hurricane Press Publications have accepted her work. Her latest title is Having Lu...