Midsummer Night in July

Midsummer Night in July

I followed the red flicker of his cigarette

in the dark

drinking 

in the night air

scared and tired and so

in lust staring 

out of the window

catching glimpses of 

bare skin between

the fronds waving gently

in the breeze

pink tangerine lemon drop ochre 

skies sweltering 

hand-sweating heat

hot flashing 

cop lights in the rear view

road after road 

heavy rain splashing on

the windshield

brake lights

sex sex sex

frothy terrible rivers

pulsing out of my chest

moonlight escapades

never leading anywhere

always just too late

to catch the sunset

so we wait for the sunrise

About the Author

Briana Stelzer is an English major at Arcadia University. She has been writing since freshman year of high school and she's been published in a few literary magazines like Navigating the Maze and BRICKRhetoric and Surrounded. Despite that, she's still having a really tough time trying to write last lines.