Monthly Archives: May 2008

i am the summer,

shining through your hair.
but you’re not here, and i’m miring myself in (the) rain–at least for now.
i’ll find it creeping through the spaces between buildings and cobblestones paved in light like the sun.
…these nights are burning.

we were drifting, across the atlantic

…these thoughts come to me in lulls.  i swallowed whole what i was thinking.  it lingered on my lips for a time, but there was nowhere for it to go in the silence of tapping and crescendos as the day passed by outside in buzzing and voices carrying like ghosts drifting pass a blowing sunset.  [...]

in dark alleys paved with dreaming light

…we shy away from our true intentions, and do the right thing–even if (in the moment) all we want is to stay.

we flew in the dark

and arrived in the morning.
Sleepy eyes are fighting mid-afternoon and hungover skies.
This has been is a long day.

losing pretentions when there’s nothing to do

Today decided it was summer.
Finally.

late nights and cool breezes

it’s not always a long drive home…just a long way to sleep.

all of a sudden

…i miss everyone.
and there’re two days before i’m gone for real–if only for a summer.
it feels like a lifetime.

we ride the streets at four in the morning

…we wave at emo-kids as we pass by.

summer comes in cold

…and we all breathe easy, if only for a week of freedom before the travel starts. Wandering forth through gray and windy city streets, I find innocence clearly–and something missing. It was naive to think it’d lessen with one final circle, or writing my name, because in freedom comes a venturing imagination and [...]

distractions were like summer

…and we fell into them early, hours.minutes.days before we were supposed to.
when you left, summer left with you.