Uphill idealist

Rocks, lines, running, laughing - going somewhere bigger. Missed, overlooked. Determined, telling me something important. Refill with a silver ladle. Missed, overlooked. Salamander, tadpole, dragonfly, sparrow - alive because you are here. Refill with a silver ladle. Where the common people walk. Salamander, tadpole, dragonfly, sparrow - alive because you are here. Determined, telling me something important. Where the common people walk. Rocks, lines, running, laughing - going somewhere bigger. (French Pantoum) Copyright 2020, August - T. L. Eastman

We'd wake up early to drink hot, black coffee in the summer heat -   because you believe the heat of the coffee will help keep us cool as we...             walk to the garden,                           pull up carrots whole out of the earth                                                  and pick and eat concord grapes -                                                               until we can't eat anymore and then go sit on the front porch, in those aluminum bouncy chairs, re-painted and re-painted in                  bright,                                 cheery,                                                     colors.   I'd look, unapologetic, at your silver, course, curls and stare into your beautifully tan handsome face -  and will my straight, dark hair silver and my skin golden brown -                    longing to embody                                    your glorious,                                                  shimmering