"Lavender All Over Again" Newspaper caption I see you in your backyard's lavender, post-lunch doze, dreaming someone you brought home last week who blurs to hummingbirds that fan your ears. Lavender buds pilled your sweatshirt in the restaurant garden you preferred, where we ate, gossiped, laughed, and downed a sizable carafe. You ate experience whole, sweetest when you lost control. I see you springing from your gluey sleep while foggy shade rolls toward your seat. You liked to party hard, still in your prime way past your prime, Give me wine wine wine all the time time time, stomped in punk dives' purple light, sweating, fists pumped high... Ardent life burned your heart and hands. You kept dancing until you could barely stand. In memory of Thom Gunn

Today’s poem for #NationalPoetryMonth
#LavenderAllOverAgain by #WSDiPiero
(A funeral poem with awe for his friend and colleague #ThomGunn)
#NaPoMo #poetry 🕯️ “Ardent life burned your heart and hands. You kept dancing until you could barely stand.”