"Summer Day's Affair"

Summer Day’s Affair

Jason Kohls

Sensation strikes with piercing stab;

You wince as the realization forms.

How could you do this,

Sweet summer’s friend?

Just one afternoon together –

She provided a heat unaccustomed –

But she has receded,

Gone

And left you to shiver

In the lukewarm sea of swimming breezes;

She has left you to nurse

The scorched wound of the day’s heat.

She’d made you sweat,

Small, salty droplets of human strength,

And now she makes you weep

Small, salty droplets of human submission.

Your heart still throbs,

So strong, in fact,

You feel its pulsations in each and every pore.

“Don’t touch me!” you gasp at the brush of the

Comforting hand.

You flinch away, smoldering evidence of the

Summer day’s affair.