one more exam

and then the long stretch of season that is

italy

boticelli

good food

new hampshire

lake swims

bread baking

painting

iced tea in the backyard

guitar

cat

reading (my book list is getting long)

SUMMER, HERE I COME

I wake up again with warmth beside me

and light sickness, and his sleep hot in my ear, and my eyes blind with morning, and I’ve given up again because the loosening— this night— is the sugar in the center of the uncertainty we’ve promised each other. 

and I cannot till this shifting soil, and I ache for him even when he is beside me,

and I ache for you though you cannot know it.

and he thinks nothing of kisses

and I think days of them.

FINALS WEEK SURVIVAL PLAYLIST

1. 1904/ Tallest Man

2. Myth/ Beach House

3. Solitude/ Alpenglow (free download here! local band lovin’ : http://alpenglowband.bandcamp.com/track/solitude)

4. Young Man in America/ Anais Mitchell

5. Viices/ Made in Heights

6. The Riot’s Gone/ Santogold

7. Send Me On My Way/ Rusted Root

8. I’ll Be Your Man/ The Black Keys

9. Unrequited Love/ Lykke Li

10. You/ Gold Panda

11. Eternal Circle/ Bob Dylan

12. Little Garcon/ Born Ruffians

13. Wilderland/ Anais Mitchell

I come out like a cannonball
Come of age of alcohol
Raven in a field of rye
With a black and roving eye
Black and roving eye
Ravenous, ravenous
What you got, it’s not enough
Young man in America

Oh, shelter, mother shelter,
Mother shelter us