SUMMER

from & all the things that happened after by continental drift

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it’s the end of summer, the sky is staining purple
and an autumn thunderstorm is rolling in from the north,

orphans of the city wreaking children’s havoc in the sand
It’s the end of august, and night falls faster now

sipping at a can of beer, shitty beer, the kind that tastes like regretful comments, and it’s so beautiful, and she is smiling so wide

the sky is so big and the ocean crashes, the last light of the setting sun scattering across the crests of waves, and it feels like summer's closing

you watch her, cheeks bathed in swaths of orange and lavender, everything at once paling in the dusk and plunging into darkness,

and the sun slips behind the mountain and under the sea and the wind whips your hair back and

you can’t, you can’t, you can’t, you can’t, you can’t.

you’ve known for a while now.
you’ve known for a while now.
it was only a matter of time.

because there are a lot of beautiful things in the world. some are plainly so. they shine and glimmer and glint.

some are subtler, spreading slow as molasses across your field of vision until that’s all you see.

and some things are so beautiful that they just hurt. like the sunrise on a day you didn’t expect to be up early, like grabbing someone’s hand for the first time

when the world is spinning and feeling time freeze. Like plane windows, or coming home, or children’s drawings, or songs you used to know...

songs you used to know.

you could love her.
you could love her,
the wind dies,
she’s smiling.

girl-shaped things, in this light,
more memory than skin now,
and she smiles,
and she smiles.

you’ve known for a while now.
you’ve known for a while now
It was only a matter of time.

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from & all the things that happened after, released November 10, 2017

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