Barn by the Beach

by RC DeWinter

Title

Barn by the Beach

Artist

RC DeWinter

Medium

Painting - Digital Oils-paintography-photopainting

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Copyright 2017 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved

Barn by the Beach

It's still there,
a stone's throw from the sea,
aging in the salt air and moonlight,
home to the ghosts of who we used to be.

I wonder who mows the lawn, tends the garden;
whoever it is will never know the secrets
tucked away in the hayloft,
but I remember every one.

Hot summer sun slanting in second story windows
and the sharp tang of saltwater
mixed with the scent of hay - of you -
of us.
The scratch of rough stalks as we
ripped off our clothes and fell to the floor,
discovering the deliciousness of skin on skin
and how
too young to know anything but the moment
we promised forever as our mouths met
and melted
and hot hands sought new places to bruise
with the excitement of discovery.

And then you were gone to the war
while I climbed the ivory tower of academia.
Then letters I wish I'd saved.
And then, for a long time, silence.

You left a leg in some steamy jungle
and when I came home you wouldn't see me
and that was that.
I discovered other men
and you discovered the consolations of the needle
and eventually - much later -
what it's like to be dead.

I couldn't make the funeral.
The baby was sick
and I'd never told Jack about you anyway.

Still, I remember.

They were good days, days I save with no regrets,
and if you were here I'd kiss your cheek
and whisper in your ear, "I remember."
~ copyright 2017 RC deWinter

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landscape, barn, rustic, garden, flowers, summer, skyscape, moon, stars, Stamford, Connecticut, RC deWinter, deWinter

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