to make you
stay…?
Please —
I’ll just
bed down
here
in your
gold light,
your green
shade,
and press
my face
against
the wild things
you’ve grown–
grass-blade,
fern-frond,
moss-wet
stone.
Let me fall
face-first
into your
blue pool,
wrap myself
in the net
of sun
that shivers
and sways
at river bottom.
Let me steal
the kayak
and slide out
to deep water–
water flat
as glass,
so that
the sunset
catches fire
in the river —
and I am racing —
sparks flicking
from the paddle —
hoping, almost,
to turn
myself
into flame —
and burn —
burn alive —
through frost,
through snow,
through that
dark night
called February …
Oh, Summer:
Just lie down with me here. ❤
ASHLEY WILSON FELLERS 
This is such a beautiful post. I feel completely the same about summer. I know it is slipping through my fingers and although fall is a lovely time of year I’m just not ready to say goodbye to summer.
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It’s always an encouragement to find out I’m not the only one… Thank you for that.
Hope you soak up all the sun you can find, these next few weeks! 🙂
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Blow me away with those lines and photos. What feeling !
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so beautiful 🙂
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Thank you! Makes me happy to know you enjoyed! 🙂
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Sigh. I can close my eyes after reading this and be transported to the cottage, floating peacefully in the lake, glass of wine in hand with not a care in the world! Lovely post!
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^^ I feel transported just reading your comment. I truly wish summer would *never* end. 🙂
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