During April, National Poetry Month, we are posting a poem a day. If you would like to suggest one, please email it in. Today’s poem is by local poet and MPS teacher Josh Coben. Mr. Coben is the author of Maker of Shadows and winner of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize 2009.

Summer Solstice by Josh Coben

We lie long
and lazy in a short-
sheeted bed: night

is not endless
and will not cover us
past dawn.

You can view a list of previous poems here.