A Midsummer Night's Dream

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I remember summer

      Once when Dionysus spilt wine on Earth ,

humanity happened to name it summer

A renaissance painting of debauchery

Dawn, comes dressed in 

ichor and mortal blood

people wake up feeling

more flesh than bone

The morning sky mimes

the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Adam reaching out to God

In the afternoons,

as ice melts upon my tongue sultry sunlight

climbs atop my bed

we lay together in a haze of distilled dreams

and cornflowers

the colour crimson of Eves' apple

under my eyelids

until the evening

when I dance

in the golden arms of sunbeam who kisses

me , the whole city

making it blush for hours later

Long sooty shadows get tangled as lovers , 

pulling over them

the blanket of Night

I fall asleep quite restlessly

blood in the bodies rising as ocean under a full moon

People united in the religion of hedonism


I remember summer

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