Summers Everlasting

Sand in sheets scuffing skin and reminding last nights attire reaks like bonfire a hundred days like this a sea of endless laughs rolling like filmreels infinitely looped fantastic Their cars rolled in, shiney and pretentious personalized plates waxed clever wit crowding this small town to gloat in sand-side castles Yacht club yucks shelling bucks like bayou crayfish condescending, fun loving, brash Chicago touristas Bless their daughters who filed in sassy chin up, chest out trustafarians scents of coconut lotion and clinique perfume wafting through our warm lake breeze reality Giddy and loving our rough edged style intending to slum with townies, like we minded... smiles glowing in those bonfire nights mischievious and promising... Every action thereafter defied catholic school education ...benificiaries of repression rebellion...like we minded! Lake Michigan was paces from my bedroom window These sparrow serenaded mornings.. ...morphing into something amphibious when the alewives were raked, we lay lazy Bodies melted into sand~~ sated with sun splashing back to cool off in sandbars coolers anchored in those cool waters taking long pulls off a perspiring Heineken Beach days concluded with seagulls off to hunt Squaking as they ascended into pink and orangecicle skies The water shimmered like a million illuminated snakes ...side winding-mirrored the suns final say Couples pulled up to Harbor landing to see the show heads melted into one mass in windshields all around lovers seeing nature's beauty more vibrant as lovers do... The sunset brings a new purple backdrop squaks are replaced with crickets chirps Bright-then-fading green...BRIGHT-then fading green Children gathered fireflies in jars laughing Ice cream stained faces aglow with captive glee Then to black and star filled, became the sky we returned to cooler sand pushing between our toes scurrying through dunegrass seeking driftwood and brush creating a structure to take to flame...a science for proud boyscouts There we gathered with newfound gals from cross lake 'burbs sunrise would end our night tonight...awaking to lifeguards scolding. Inspired by John Heck's Summer Contest!!