Sneaking Onto The Reservoir Again By Robert Wood Lynn

Everything this year gave me it took back
quicker—lovers, money, reckless smiles
of restless friends. According to the awful math
of planets, summer’s next. I brace for autumn
to come for it the way I used to collect you
drunk at a bar. If a season wants to stay—
to linger past enunciation like you were given to
so oft en—why stop it? What will October make
of its belligerence? Superheroes begging parents
to let them outside without jackets, you and I sweating
clean from the past? August is still here but you’re not
so this time I paddle out alone, rowing the rare thing
easier without you. By sundown the water is warmer
than the air breezing over it. It radiates like a man
next to me in bed and I stretch my arms across it
out of instinct. The ranger’s truck in a far fi eld
cranking doo-wop because he thinks he’s alone.
I stroke slow to the backbeat, harmonies splitting
and rejoining as they’re carried to me over the water.
If they were birds we’d call that murmuration, fi sh
we’d call it schooling. If they were you, I’d know
that what we call the bad year has fi nally let go.

sneaking onto the reservoir again by Robert Wood Lynn

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