This, the sad smile of summer
She leaves with a kiss of sun and a shiver of cool
She swears she will return in a few days for a short visit before she leaves
for the south for seven months
Her snappy sister arrives in a huff, hair twirling in the bitter wind
she taunts me with her bright hard light and dashes my hopes for a detente’
Damn, she’s here for a while and she has very few qualms about summoning
her big wintery mama on occasion just to keep me honest, sniffling, and covering up
