Love: zero

Love: zero. Friends: two.

by R. Eric Swanepoel

(First published The Cellar Scene, Issue 7, Cellar Scene Publications,
282 Hardgate, Aberdeen AB10 6AA, Scotland)

In summer I think of our love - a season it never knew.

Two friends remain:

The memory of the taste of your lips in the snow,

And your music, which yet permeates my days.