Hour 5: Sip on Summer – thank you Starbucks – this was your slogan for summer of 2017 or 2018 and it is living in my brain rent free every summer since then. Also Pumpkin spice came out way too early this year – or if you’re gonna release it don’t call it fall call it a transition or end of summer or something else. Clearly I’ve got big opinions and they needed to be known for this poem to land. or my brain wants you to have the context – you may not need it.

 

Everyone is ready for autumn –

they think a cup of coffee

can turn the seasons and

set the stage for colorful leaves –

 

I am certain there are still

a few weeks of sipping on summer

and I don’t mind the heat

the way everyone else seems to.

 

But I’m embracing my iced tea

time on the patio, and

long walks remembering you in

that place with wild mint

and too many memories to keep.

 

Can’t we just appreciate what

we have for a while longer?

-M. Rene’