Long after summer

LONG AFTER SUMMER

and then they
come
rushing tumbling
helplessly

out of the storied
past

whole thoughts
and scenes
and half-forgotten
airs

all the fair
notions of
what was summer
now injured by
time

and the mind makes
much of them

caresses polishes until
they seem just
right

for its own
cold comfort

and slow progress
through the long
winter's night

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