A Berkey snuck into my house

and spelled me from mountain creeks

I turned unplayful and pragmatic

Dried up the drink of evergreens

against the endless sky

"People you may know" 

carousel

Among them a nature man

almost barefoot

No dog, no girlfriend seen with him

A goddamned weirdo, of course 

When suddenly! - a woman

on his shoulder

I go drinking tea in peace

I'm glad I can think 

about you

Happiness holds no past

no future

Present is you and me

From solid A

to slippery B

forgetting in a rush 

to play 

But yesterday 

I felt contentment

to the nth degree

and everything went bleak

Give in 

to how slow 

the sap is moving

Into reflection

of how you've grown 

under the summer sun

Now we catch up 

to our own selves

in blue air, white world