summers away.

The sun is as yet consuming in my skin

despite the fact that it set thirty minutes prior,

what's more, Cindy and Bob and Bev and John

are pulling on their sweatshirts

what's more, assembling around the fire pit.

John gives me a cool one

what's more, now Bev comes into my arms

what's more, I can feel the sun's warmth,

furthermore, taste the Pacific on her cheek.

I am not in Vietnam,

nor is John or Bob, in light of the fact that

our suspensions came through,

furthermore, we get the opportunity to remain young men

for at any rate another late spring

like this one in Santa Cruz,

surfing the evenings in a sweet

blue dream I'm recollecting now,

as the medical caretaker puts my cheek to rest,

what's more, the specialist starts to consume

those summers away.