Longer Than Any Indian Summer

The frozen ground is all around me. I want spring to come soon. And show me who I am. When flowering tongues festoon Grow and cover me above. Intern me even as I go, below. I want to feel the wind's warmth. When rain falls in the summer And the tarmac shimmers. This is how I'll know, and I'll also Live forever with hope. In a dream that goes on forever. The heart beats as heavy as a skein. Of geese looking for hemispheres Beyond what we all call our sun. And when this melting's begun I'll pray the summer is a good one. Longer than any other summer. Longer than all the stars numbered We counted together, next -one another. And longer than an Indian summer.