2022-06-29 #writing/poetry #poem-a-day
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a 70 degree summer night in new york city a perfect summer night has the backing of a thousand flying fish. The
on a perfect summer night i thought about the day my heart shattered from high pressure heat.
on a perfect summer night i watched the sky and her infinity eyes lock gaze with mine, caught
on a perfect summer night, i remembered how to pick up pieces. I remembered my ability to make things whole.
on a perfect summer night, i chased the stretches of dark between streetlights. I chased dreams fleeing my voice. I chased my shadow, one step ahead, and then further. I watched it ride away on the wind.
on a perfect summer night, I dropped my heart over the bridge but the lights of the skyline caught it. The air is thick with the syrup of wishes. The breeze is cooled by patchwork laughter.
on a cool summer night, I captured the spirit of wonder. I saw her shadow emerge from the flashes of fireflies in Prospect Park. I watched her give birth to the new moon. A child boundless with joy, outlined by the scar of fear.
on a cool summer night, I tripped on overgrown questions, overrun the walkway, and fell into the basin of insanity. as i drowned, i thought about how the ancient mystics approached the alluring figure of uselessness. How they flirted with that timeless muse, which ones of them had butterflies in their stomach at the sight of her overwhelming presence.
on a cool summer night, I opened my heart up to a stranger. I told him about pieces of myself that I had planted in the open stomachs of trees. I recounted secrets banished into sound from a lighthouse at the end of the world. I wished on the flickering torches for a world without wishing.
on a perfect summer night, I didn’t think about the coming winter or the coat i was supposed to wear. I didn’t remember how frozen solid toes feel or how warmth becomes meaningless when all you’ve known is cold.
on a dark summer night, i climbed onto a borrowed roof and stared out over the universe and made a wish upon the star that dashed my heart.