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summer fling

do you remember? that late summer

night, fireflies and stars

we couldn’t see, the grass all burnt

and stiff, yellow like straw

beneath our fingers. it reminded me

of trips to the farm for

halloween, hay wagon rides and

your powdered sugar smile.

you’ve always been weak for donuts,

i’ve always been weak for you.

we ate apple pie after, fresh-baked

by your grandmother.

she never liked me much.


i’ve gotten side tracked

again, haven’t i? you used to

make fun of me, told me

i would start telling one story

and tell another fifteen

along the way. but you didn’t

mind, you thought it was

endearing. i wonder

if you still do, i don’t

think so.


do you remember? that warm night,

sitting on a towel in your dead-grass

yard, looking up at an ocean of

blue. you were talking

about all the stars

we couldn’t see,

andromeda and vega and

orion. you were pointing

at the sky, to where the stars

would have been.


i wanted to tell you

all the stars are in your eyes.


instead, i told you i loved you.


your favorite color was

red, you were red, the towel was

red, if the wounds your words cut

bled it wouldn’t have showed.


i wondered,

if you could see

blood pouring out

the hole in my chest,

would things have been

different?


there was an old man

across the street, sitting

in his chair with a glass of beer.

he watched me

walk home. i couldn’t tell

what he was thinking.

 

hi! here's yet another sad-ish poem but it's not as depressing? it's not personal so there's that! this was an in-class writing assignment for my creative writing class where we had to write a poem featuring the words "summer," "straw," "red," "grandmother," and "chair." i came up with this! i like to write poems that kind of take what you'd expect and do the complete opposite. hence why i chose to focus on summer nights, dead grass, and a not-nice grandmother. i actually really like how this turned out, and i hope you do too! i also really hate the concept of valentine's day, hence why i'm posting a sad love poem. heh.

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