Over the Course of the Seasons
I’ll see you after seasons change
when we’re bundled up again,
when breezes penetrate thermal
layers and our fat gloved hands
are teenagers again, awkwardly
holding each other in your coat’s
wool-lined pocket.
I’ll lose you in spring when we
get swallowed inside the tulip
petals hundreds of backyard
gardens away.
I’ll miss you in summer when
sweat begins to stream from my
forehead to the ground, when
I can feel the air holding my
dripping silhouette steady-
I’ll long for your hand to
drag me to my destination.
I’ll fall somber in fall when my
hair begins to blend in with the
yellowing leaves, when our flower
homes crash into crackled sheets
of tar- I’ll fall somber, and remain
so until the day in which you come
blasting in with the blizzard.