elusive summer

1 september 2020, limburg

sitting on a hay bale

a crow

saying goodbye to the elusive summer

drifts, glides behind

the silver of horizon

strokes

the forest and the meadow

not for the last time

kisses good bye

parting

the exhausted sun

keeps a low profile

bleeds resting behind the clouds

soon this thief of emerald

this crimson autumn

without contriving

vividly will be thriving

wood  will turn saffroned

the wet spine of earth

will be visible

covered with silk white

i sit in my boat

rowing with the sailing clouds

looking from nowhere

the constant coming and going of

hundreds summers and winters

above my unfortified vulnerable town

where people sleepwalk

thinking and talking in past tenses

but for now let’s enjoy

this bowl of sour sweet blueberries

maybe tomorrow

wouldn’t meet us again