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: Orest Subtelny is a Canadian historian of Ukrainian descent. Born in Kraków, General Government in German-occupied Poland, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973.
