SUMMER + LOVE
Summer
lovin ’dreams
Drive-in
movie memories
crackling
broken dialogue through
speakers
screeching statically
barley
hanging on
We
don’t care
No
time to stop kissing
not
even for air
Doesn’t
matter that
back seats
aren’t big
enough
for exploring twisted
bodies,
double dates
Friends
drunk in the trunk
on
beer, youth, and each
other
Summer
lovin’
Underwater
sunburnt kisses
rainbow
bubbles floating by
bursting
into firecracker
exclamation
points in the sky
Names spelled with
sparkler’s
firefly letters
surrounded
by a luminous
valentine
shaped heart
that
disappears immediately
but
like a miracle
you
can still see
hide
-N- seek kisses
Bottles
spinning
“Please
land on me”
7
minutes in heaven
Summer lovin’
drips
with Midwest humidity
for a
split second too hot for sex
or to
catch our breath
Our flesh
can’t resist
melting
into sheets and each other
needing
a treasure map to
know
where one of our bodies
begin
and the other one ends
as the
cicadas serenade us
Summer
lovin’
sneaking
out your window
to go
skinny dipping
in the
black of the night
as the
mountains stand guard
The
scattered starlight images
reflecting
in shimmering
swimming
pools
Crashing
into city twinkling lights
glimmering
in the valley
Naked
we wave
to the
helicopter pilot
that
just happens
to fly
by every night
Summer
lovin’
Getting
married on the beach
in Mexico at sunset
barefoot
dressed in white
Waves
bringing gifts of
tomorrows
bright future
no
matter how rough the water gets
or too
many Tequila shots
whispering
spirit forming other beings
Arms
wrapped around forever
I love
you
like a
warm summer night
“Summer lovin', had me a blast
Summer lovin', happened so fast”
SPRING INTO SUMMER FORGET ABOUT
FALL AND WINTER
The fluttering flirtiness of spring
as
cliché as it seems
fully
bloomed into romance that summer
Days
leading up to the 4th of July
fireworks
getting stronger and louder
exploding
into love
It was
after the
Bang
In the
quietness
of
synchronized breaths exhaled
it
felt most real
Surprising
them both
for it
had started out
as a
one-night stand
They
wanted to cling
to the
summer
like
their tans
Sun
glassed selfies
Bodies
glistening
Sparkling
kisses
dripping
down through
the
hot summer nights
Blockbusters
bursting
viscerally
feeling the action
and
the heat
Coupled
cocktails with bright
colored
fruits and tiny umbrellas
that
couldn’t protect them from
Slipping
away
into
the horizon of
dissipating
sunset
Foretold
prophecies
with
the crispness of Fall
falling
heart shaped leaves
into a
snow globe winter
burring,
blurring
all
the promises made
Faded
into
Not
seeing each other
No
calls
Not
even a text
or a
meme
Nothing
The
summer turned away
from
all the pasts spring
All
that remains
are
refrained
rainbow
patterned puddled
popsicles
stains stuck
to the
kitchen floor
she
can’t seem
to
bring herself to clean
while
the background music
of
Pied Piper ice cream trucks leading parades of kids gleefully
racing
down hot sizzling streets
towards
a future of
first
summer kisses
SUMMER
LOVIN’ HAIKU #1
Summer
lovin’ was
not
her sun bright secret. She
spills
it after dark
SUMMER
LOVIN’ HAIKU #2
Summer
lovin’ was not
sunny
bright but a secret
revealed
in the dark
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