for joshua

The greatest of the summer loves

We crash the summers

Shirtless in your arms

And bid goodbye to a pastel romance.

Teaching me how to be rebellious

And finding your place in my backseat

With the windows down

In the humid Georgia nights.

Star spangled parking lots

Where your parents never knew

The moments of sand and air

Lying about ages and intentions.

Spinning in the softness

Of broken curfews

And kisses

That sing lines of endless summers.

Hands on skin that begs for stolen houses

And afternoons alone.

Sparkling eyes begging

take me anywhere.

tiny seconds

tiny glances

of leaving the ground

for jealous skies.

Finding the missing thing

And letting it flow out of me

Like the sticky river air.

A touch on my neck

And we’re off again

With excuses and all the reasons in the world,

Just to see each other one last time.

A summer hidden in silence.

A summer painted in whispers.

In hay fields and truck beds,

In saturns and city parks.

Tomorrows like yesterdays

And todays like nevers.

You buzzed like the tune of your bluegrass heartstrings

In my restless eager ears

Drinking in the chlorine

And the breeze of freedom

Holding close my shoulders

And promising to marry me

An endless season

Spent on linens like ink on a page.