“keep your head still / i’ll be your thrill / the night will go on / my little windmill”

For Poetry Monday:

Summer Dusk, Charles Simic

You’ve been the love of my life,
Light lingering in the sky
At the close of a long day
Over the roofs of some city
Like New York or Rome,
As streets empty in the heat,
And shadows lengthen
And darken every room,
Occupied or still vacant,
Where some turn on the lamp
And others step to a window
To savor this fleeting moment
When everything stops
As if stunned by its own beauty.


---L.

Subject quote from All the Small Things, Blink-182.