How Could I Forget
Strawberries and cream on a cone A sticky mustache Lightning and I am a child, Nesquik strawberry milk How could I forget Hays finally in, storms hovering Somewhere in that heat Where my eyes burned with sweat Clothes stuck to skin, Fingers weaving twine In the rush of it all, I slipped I heard an old cry of joy Siblings running in and out of a garage door Rain and thunder Out there waves and sideways lines sweeping across the horizon, Painting tar How could I forget the fragrance of you when storms passed And the sun embraced a beaming child, dripping How could I forget rainy nights Little fingers opening the window just to breathe That no inhaler could The baler is empty A young tender field again shall spring For four legged hooves I’ve just about collapsed With a body merging into a mystic Watching this sky darken And though these days you can really make me run Across fields and leap the stream Heart bursting to cover the suns harvest I love you, I really do Just to lay in a field again and watch you billow and dream Would you take me with you So to surf the sky like you You see I don’t water anymore I won't do it, no more I quench the dew and I drink the night Sweat and fingerprints staining Ash You see I make little nests of hay I bathe in a salty kind of way And I pray for rain I pray for thunder and I pray for lightning I pray for a child still in me Who will giggle relentlessly Who will open out his arms To catch lightning As if love could crawl into me And i’d dance Damn it I would dance