Requiem for a Summer Afternoon

Requiem for a Summer Afternoon

I see you...

Early afternoon sun

Spins your hair

Brilliant gold.

Your eyes glint

With the diamond light

Flashing off the lake.

My hand reaches

The shoreline

Along your forehead.

The pads of my fingers play
Through your waves of
Auburn hair

Downward

Across your eyelids

Bridge of your nose

Your sweet lips

I have known so well

The swell of your chin

Down your smooth neck

And off your open collar

My touch swirling

Like tidal pools.

I see you

With more than eyes.

You stand before me

Offering this moment

As searing memory.

I take you in my arms

Press you into

My body

And

I see you.