Peaches and Cream
you are peaches and cream
thick, heady, sweet
you are the intoxicating scent
of the magnolia blossoms
pale in the moonlight
you are the summer breeze
warm against hot, flushed skin
you are the babble of a tiny brook
swollen with rain, straining
to break free from the sandy banks
struggling to boil over
you are the strength coiled in a horse's legs
galloping across open plains, empty expanses
caverns and canyons and arroyos
you are the rustle of the leaves
the song of the grass
the crackle of flame and sputter of sea
you are the stars and the moon and the sun and the sky
you are peaches, ripe, full, alive
you are the earth
peaches, cream, magnolia, summer, love
you are the world to me
