That One Summer (Chicken Edition)

by JL Peridot

Where did you go, my gossamer boy?
You crowed your summer song too soft
and one verse short.
Sunset clucks in your absence:
wistful memory of a voice,
pecking my cheek and disappearing
on the autumn breeze.


JL Peridot writes love letters to the future on devices from the past. She lives with a couple of good eggs in Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia.