that june afternoon with you

The summer sun takes me back

to that June afternoon with you

nothing to do

me and you, and two spoons

bought a liter of sherbert

and put on some tunes

spice girls and pop songs

we ate on your lawn

till the ice cream was gone

then danced in the sun - sugar high

we touched the sky

you made cartwheels

while I made angels in the grass

we got heat rash

and freckles on our faces

undone shoeless

barefoot and beautiful

perennially young

forever in fun

two girls and a sun

together

inevitable, the sun set that night

and without a fight

we let her retire

tired, we lay on a cotton quilt

cool air soothing our burnt faces

like aloe

the sound of cars

the twinkling stars

the light of the summer moon

takes me back

to that june afternoon, with you