i loved you the way
i believed summer
would melt,
fell into your arms
the way i could only
ever fall with you.

shadows on the water,
locks of hair in pendants,
love still remembered
though the tide is now
withered like summer grass.

golden streams of sun
sink, unwrap, dance,
melt into the trees
like honeycomb,
silver the ground
with their tender warmth.
the day is dying but so gently
that the shadows can only lengthen
dreaming their dreams of the night.

grey mists over the sea
desolate skies
dreams of the skies.

the whiteness of ghosts,
winter flowers,

songs of the night
falling through
the leaves,

the old dark ache
of the skies,

our love
naked in its seas.

cloud in the sky,
drifting, rose of
the skies, wanderer.

elation, wild heart,
sea of wild stars,
sea, incredible love.

winter sea, wilderness
and wild flowers,
stars burning the skies.

i am jealous
because all of my
love wants you,

i am jealous
because my beautiful
love wanted you,

kissing me in dreams,
sighing like a ghost,
like the waves of the sea i so love.

tonight i want the sea more
than your love, some days
my heart just longs to be wild.

tonight i will make you jealous
of the sea.

i loved you under a wandering star,
i loved you in the night,
love that would never fade,
love more gentle than all the stars,
love more gentle than the night.

streams of the stars
golden leaves
sinking in the fading light
dappled shadows
where the light drowns
its stones and unwraps
the sweetness of the night.

where love
is my jealousy,
where the moon
is a song of the dark,
where the moon is
me dreaming of you.

where the breeze blows
more softly than
a river flowing to the sea,
where my heart hums
its strangest melodies.

the sun an arc of
flowering orange,
kiss me
as i have never been kissed.

the yellow pools
of the sun, mists
on a summer day,
moods like clouds,
my heart lifted in golds.

a fiery heart,
the beating sun,
summer’s ghosts burning
and a lonely petal falls from the rose.