There is a reason why this is the fourth of Meredith Davies Hadaway’s poems we’ve presented since July of last year. Read this recognition of a moment in August and you too will agree that her stunning gifts merit reading her every chance you get.

Meredith Davies Hadaway is a woman with a profession and a poet with permission. Her self-granted authorization is to simply sit and think. She has been quoted as saying, “We can’t remember things because we never really experienced them. Slowing down to think is essential.”