6/30

The cure for all things, according
To Isak Dinesan, is salt water: sweat, tears,
Or the sea. 

Today was sweat, eight hours of washing, 
Taping and painting. Up and down ladders,
It looks good. 

I am tired and in a better mood, even before
A friend called asking for me and the painter
Will come tomorrow. 

The summer solstice sun is setting but a few
Degrees south this evening. The distance of
A tree trunk.