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summer-boy and such: early musings

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i dream of night-lit lonely beaches at the cusp where
summer tips over into autumn and the stars won't stay in one place and
there's a telltale chill in the air and college kids and fires guarding
our shores from the tide,

of a boy with soft brown curls
spilling down the nape of his neck: a fire-bright boy with glow-gold
eyelashes and burnished eyes and lightning smiles and

out-of-step tangos to mandolin ballads and shards of bottles and spills of stale wine and

brazen skies all storm-edged and

things i'd do if i couldn't regret, and

winter comes, summerlover, and i dream
of you.
i stumbled across this little formative and spontaneously spilled version of what was later summer-boy, birdy scrolling back through an online rant of sorts to my go-to friend, and i thought i'd share. thought processes are strange things, exceptionally so at unholy hours in the a.m. :giggle:
there's bits here that didn't translate into the final version, but i'm thinking i'll keep them for later.

no steal. why would you want to steal this, really?
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SycamoreSea's avatar
I just wanted to let you know that for my poetry class, I have to choose a poem "that you feel reflects the style of poetry you hope to someday create" and explain "what the style and form of the poem means to you and your writing," and - since I can no longer find summer-boy, birdy in your gallery, I chose this beautiful early version of it. I hope you don't mind. <3