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Writer's pictureNatalie Wenninger

The last kiss of summer

Updated: Apr 26, 2022


Life hangs a little raw in August.

It billows out like ribbons, taking flight.

Everything is acute in nature:

the heat,

the activity,

the emotions,

the expectations,

the soft dangle of sunshine on our ant hills of busy.

There is an ache that grows in me every August.

A desire that pants with purpose

for deeper,

richer,

more fulfilling

experiences.

To suck, as it were, the marrow from the bone,

leaving no un-investigated stone.

It could just be me,

musing through the movements of my heart this month,

putting language to the blunt edges of my longing,

but I could also be reading a page from your journal too.

And if I am,

hear me,

follow your hunger to the source.

Put blinders on.

Press mute on the noise.

Get serious with your pick ax & head lamp

& let's dig deep together,

unearthing summer's final kiss.

There is so much hidden in plain sight

and like Steven Tyler,

I don't wanna miss a thing.


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