A SUMMER PAST

Yet another summer flowed away
Like water from my body seeping
In making love went the hours of day
And in white afternoons spent sleeping

What passed was just a summer
But the taste of salt is on my skin yet
And the fish we pulled out
With the evening sun from the same net

It was a summer in distant Georgia
On the shores of eagle mountains
That left a blue-eyed lake
In the dreams of children

It was a summer, its every second lived well
And the winds that from its sandy beaches whirl
Perhaps will chill a sea-creature’s shell
And remember a little girl