ghosts
of summer rain
up,
around, and
over me
like a million fireflies laughing
on a hot dusty breeze.


...sweetness,
captured 'neath linden trees sagging under
the volume of cicadas...


and night slides
through, awakening 
dreams...

and old fears too.


and
I smile deeply
into
her eyes
with delight,
finding
infinity
smiling right back:

oh this crazy love
we share:
my beautiful Tanty
and me.

racing 'cross gusts of desire,
a stampede of emotion
sends
me soaring.

and here,

in between it all,

I find
You,

so steady,
and true.

the sweet whisper
of Night's wonder
lingers on
between fog
and field,
and muted heart.
-a kind caress
upon this old fool's soul.


the thrill
of our wildest abandon
lost,
in a swirl of
misplaced memories,
cloud this mist
with the sweet taste
of a destiny foregone,
and fill the
in-between
spaces
with our hidden dreams
and forgotten desire.


Dawn approaches
gently
with her ever tantalizing promise,
and
this longing
remains still.

the glint of
summer, and
its gentle storms that ignite the very sky
flash
fierce across her
young eyes.

and,
dancing across his full
and trembling
lips,
the promise
of a thousand tomorrows.

and so they walk on,
with neither hope,
nor care
for what may come.

with this moment won,
nothing more needs be done