summer smells like you

Breathless in ice, I wait for May to turn

Into my June. Eyes up, I face the blue.

No sunscreen to protect when sunlight burns,

I remember, the summer smells like you.

As damp grass wets my hair and dyes me clear,

the air is dry and water's a memory.

How can I feel the rain though you're not here?

Water's a colour only God can see.

And so we drank rain and away we grew

Away and gone, but in summer I take

a breath for you and Chinook winds pass through

My frozen lungs and melt our childhood lake.

The sound of air the world is deafened to.

For it's not summer I breathe for, but you.