Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.
Bio: Charles "Chuq" Von Rospach is a science fiction writer and critic, and was at one time a frequent and well-known contributor to the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written.
