Blue skies and butterflies

draw me outside to where

my cryogenic heart thaws

in the sunshine of your love.

The leaf section of my

sympathy orchestra

plays blues with cool affection

then plucked by the wind

gives me a ticker-tape parade

then lies like a yellow brick road

on my trail to happiness.

Bird lyrics call me fool

to think I could freeze

stalactite memories

or grow love in trees

to pick when I please.

All the while

my smile mirrors a daytime moon

as tree trunks

volunteer for diary duty

and I wear a teenager's blush.

A cheeky breeze blows prose away

and delivers fresh thoughts

of a promised summer

when we won't care

building ice cream castles

in the air...

you and I

a blue sky

and mulberry pie.

Slowly cresting the hill

stop and ponder

then wonder

where I might be

without you.

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