The two greatest
English words
Summer afternoon

Served
in tall glasses
of sweet mint tea

Under pastel
yellow and green
beach umbrellas

Accompanied by
wordless songs
of rhyming surf

Laughing gulls
on currents of air
mirroring contentment

Time drifts easy
healing old bones
scared by harsher days

Worldly concerns
disappear in
sun-bleached sand

Long summer afternoons
ready us for
Life’s winters