I remember summer
Once when Dionysus spilt wine on Earth ,
humanity happened to name it summer
A renaissance painting of debauchery
Dawn, comes dressed in
ichor and mortal blood
people wake up feeling
more flesh than bone
The morning sky mimes
the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Adam reaching out to God
In the afternoons,
as ice melts upon my tongue sultry sunlight
climbs atop my bed
we lay together in a haze of distilled dreams
and cornflowers
the colour crimson of Eves' apple
under my eyelids
until the evening
when I dance
in the golden arms of sunbeam who kisses
me , the whole city
making it blush for hours later
Long sooty shadows get tangled as lovers ,
pulling over them
the blanket of Night
I fall asleep quite restlessly
blood in the bodies rising as ocean under a full moon
People united in the religion of hedonism
I remember summer