Summer has come in now

The summer has come in now, rolled in with the start of June in sunshine banners of bright and blue and heat and golden air, filling the green fields with sparkling wine and the tight spot in my chest with smiles of arriving.

It is new this year, new leaves, new sun, new promise, but arrives in a coach of memories and anticipation, its pleasure held in the hand of past glories as if to revisit them, as if to turn back time and aging and step again into the pool of our first summer.

The heat heals, seeping down layer by layer through skin and muscle to my core, stretching out wrinkles and lighting up corners until the whole of me feels new and shiny.

The buttercups are singing at the edge of the road, the bees are purring among the bowls of blossom, and I am shining.