Three Month Sentence

Three months oflittle sun, closed streakedwindows to follow.

We had notused our summer well.

We had not sleptunder a June blue sky,toes curled in fresh green.

We had not wrapped nightsin tender sighs under stars.Our nightswere wasted in worry.

It’s midnight, love.

Let’s slip outsidefind the sourceof the crescent, the crickets,the scamperers.

Let’s flee with them.