Playdate

to Martin                                                           August 12, 2025  

 

Across this midnight blue 
   the Lake collects the tears of the city, 
   and by dawn the sun makes them shiny prisms 
      forming schools of rainbows on the waves. 
Let my dreamy midnight drops 
   be a path for my soul to your backyard, 
      to build burrows for the gnomes, 
      or contemplate the fluidity of the sand. 
Let our rainbows reunite under the trees 
   to blow dandelions at the sun 
      for the funniest playdate we'll ever have.