Ferocious Fox #2

summer in pantoum*

Memories, like stars, fall down;
visions of what could have been.
Dreams formed in a childhood town;
the parents away sipping their gin.

Visions of what could have been:
lying on a floor to watch the fan
(the parents away sipping their gin)
and "playing house" as a grown up man.

Lying on a floor to watch the fan.
A woman moistened by the touch of a hand.
And playing house as a grown up man.
An illusion of romance never bland.

A woman moistened by the touch of a hand;
on a beach brought alive by the seagulls cry.
An illusion of romance never bland;
a tryst of a season like a firefly.

On a beach brought alive by the seagulls cry
time dripped slowly from a lemonade pitcher.
A tryst of a season like a firefly --
summer always left her lovers richer.

Time dripped slowly from a lemonade pitcher
puddles so deep one wants to drown.
Summer always left her lovers richer.
Memories, like stars, fall down.

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*Pantoum: a poetic form made of a series of four lined stanzas (quatrains). The line pattern is as follows: First Quatrain 1-2-3-4, Second Quatrain 2-5-4-6, Third Quatrain 5-7-6-8, and so on. The final line in the final quatrain is the same as the first line of the poem. The rhyme is abab in each quatrain, so the lines rhyme alternately.