time rolls over - deborah guenther beachboard

On the first day of summer 

the sun warms my old bones

as I watch the last rhododendron blossom

give itself to the earth;

time rolls over the woman and the flower.

Deborah Guenther Beachboard began writing in 1993 and had poetry published in Modern Haiku, Sijo West, Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, Short Stuff, Twilight Ending and other online and in-print journals.After a ten-year hiatus (2006-2016 a long boring story), Deborah returned to writing and currently posts her poems to the uncurated online forum Poetry Soup under the pen name Chetta Achara. https://www.poetrysoup.com/me/ChettaAchara She makes her home in the Adna Valley in southwest Washington state.