You & I wonder about one summer’s eternal 
possessions, oblivious buds, shade & a day  
staying chaste .. it’s on the house.  
Feels great out ahead until there’s a threshold.  
 
In those same terms there’s too hot  
a reliance on making out   
Optimizing the center where death dies.  
Vice or virtue will take more than a single changing course  
to snatch life from time, breathing freely if we could see.