His summer-brown smile haunts me. I sense him now, unlike before, he is closer to me. He is gone.
The way she looks at me sometimes . . .
by Christopher Jug George
Photo by Christopher Jug George *St. Croix River* July 28, 2011
That beautiful lady stays inside of summer. She is wrapped in a shawl of timelessness and is so convincing when she tells me there never really is a now.