August 2024
Shaun Pankoski
lilyandshaun@gmail.com
Bio Note: I am a poet most recently from Volcano, Hawaii. I am also a retired county worker and two time breast cancer survivor. In addition to living in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, I have lived on both coasts and the Midwest as an artist’s model, modern dancer, massage therapist and honorably discharged Air Force veteran. I have poems in a lot of places--here, Storyteller Poetry Review, Writing in a Woman's Voice and ONE ART, among others. Now a chapbook is on my bucket list.

Late Summer

Take the box
that is your heart.
Fling it open 
and pour in 
all the golden light.
The sea brine, the shimmering, 
a wash of cool
along hot shoulders. Salt.
That last look.
You will be sad
but do not let that stop you
from being greedy.
Shove everything in,
fill it to the brim
before Autumn comes
and locks it
with a little click.

©2024 Shaun Pankoski
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