wordless// a summary of summer
-Jireh Hong

how do you draw a daydream
and color the sounds of laughter blue
expect me to walk on unseen tightropes,
put this confusion into words,
and patch up my past so that it
seems good as new?

been in a desert for some months now
ever since i got back from
the future, i thought what i saw in the mirror
before would look better
different, like a me two point oh
though instead I was more like
the "Oh," children say with a
disappointed sigh and shrug when
they rip open wrappers and expect to find toys
but instead get hand me downs
from their older cousins.
needless to say I wasn't even back
to square one; no
my feet stood stiffly on a
handpainted red zero

the past sixty-something days after that was somehow bliss, seeing faces you
don't see everyday and going
on spontaneous road trips,
I liked that best: going away.
until those faces became familiar and
then they had to leave
I hated that most: going away.

during those times it was
unbelievably sunny, like the sun
decided to up his game a little bit
this year and throw in more heat
but yesterday, it hid behind the
clouds and cried until it soaked
roads, buildings, and bridges.
summer is part over and
it's rainy now, yet I'm still stuck
inching forward, jumping
back, and my arms are hurting from
straining to keep my head focused
on what's ahead

note to self: let go.
I hope
the heart of my brain
remembers that

This one by Stephen has followed me in my thoughts

THKS to remind us that love song

Apart the Moon a legendary couple is still visible in our night skies in June:Jupiter and Venus

They’ll appear in your evening sky throughout June 2015, and they’ll be drawing closer together each evening!
Love and enjoy.

Let Evening Come
By Jane Kenyon
Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.

Let the cricket take up chafing
as a woman takes up her needles
and her yarn. Let evening come.

Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned
in long grass. Let the stars appear
and the moon disclose her silver horn.

Let the fox go back to its sandy den.
Let the wind die down. Let the shed
go black inside. Let evening come.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop
in the oats, to air in the lung
let evening come.

Let it come, as it will, and don’t
be afraid. God does not leave us
comfortless, so let evening come.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6JUILG34aU

2 drifters off to to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
we're after the same
rainbow's end
waiting round the bend
my Huckleberry friend
Moonriver and me


this evening