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junebug

june is my darling

june is my love,my love,,mylove


june is my childhood sweetheart.

a month dipped in gossamer

and glass petals

of the most delicate little tulips.


a month that sits with me

behind waterfalls and shivers,

holding my hand and asking why my hair

isn’t purple anymore.


june is my high school crush,

funnily somehow

the same height as me;

a month sickly sweet

and full of every warm

hug i’ve always wanted.


june, i see you around the corner.


i tumble and crash

and twist my way out of may.


it’s been nice getting to know

myself:

i want to wake up to

kisses and love letters under my pillow.


i want to wake up to june

and sunshine touching

the places in my heart that only

sunshine can reach.


i want my sheets to be too

warm; i want to

sleep in the moonlight -

let it climb up into

my hands

and wriggle into my heart.


there’s a gap

somewhere within me,

and june will fill it.


the promise

of a summer of

insects and spiders

and ladybugs ladybugs ladybugs

will fill it.


june you

will complete

my little heart.

there is a Part of me

i am going to meet

and she will hold my hand

and carry me for a while.


i will call her june

lovingly and teasingly,

because she looks like a dream

and has hands made of flower petals.


there is nothing lyrical

about her,

nothing except everything.


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