Longer Than Any Indian Summer Poem by Mark Heathcote

Frozen ground is all around me
I want spring to come soon…
And show me who I really am.

When flower tongues festoon
Grow and cover me above
Intern me even as I go, below.

I want to feel the winds warmth
When rains fall in the summer
And the tarmacs shimmer.

This is how I’ll know, I’ll also
Live forever with hope
In a dream that goes on forever.

Heart beats heavy as a skein
Of geese looking for hemispheres
Beyond what we all call our sun.

And when this melting’s begun
I’ll pray the summer is a summer
Longer than any other summer.

Longer than all the stars numbered
Counted together - next one another
Longer than any Indian summer.