Dec 26, 2009
“Summer Night” is a thirty-five-line poem visually arrayed so that alternating lines dominate either the right-or lefthand side of the page. The poem, written in free verse, describes the persona’s impressions of a balmy summer night spent waiting for a lover to come home. In an autobiographical piece, Joy Harjo wrote that she had wanted the poem to capture the feel of a humid Oklahoma night and the impressions of her family’s home.
The narrative opens with a description of the nearly full moon and flowers. In the night, children can be heard playing;...
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