Eat the Summer

I will eat the summer
like a peach
and keep the stone
when I am done
within my reach
and as autumn pilfers
light from day
that seed alone
all else undone
I'll hide away
so when winter renders
orchards bare
as twisted bone
and kills the sun
and fills the air
I can throw the stone back
toward the spring
and when it's grown
birds one by one
will start to sing.

March 19 2013