Song of a big sky summer

I swear, the summer never looked so vast

the clouds never looked so far and full

though lonely

and the sky never looked

so purely, tearfully blue.

I think I’ve

fallen a little bit in love

with that sky, with the sun,

with the song

of the fire in my belly

and the sea in my eyes

and the hole my chest.

I cry, and love

because my youthful muscles

are running on empty.

It makes me free-

like I’m at the bottom of a pool

looking up from the deep

at the rippling blue dome,

hollow arms stretched out to

take it

with my curled fingers.

I reach out and

plunge into the heavens

the summer heat devours

my palms and

I can own it and

shatter the air like glass

in my big sky summer.

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