Summer Villanelle

This lovely late summer painting from:

http://belladia.typepad.com/bella_dia/i_like_to_make_things/

After that dark and somewhat depressing villanelle of mine yesterday here is an antidote. 'Summer Villanelle' by Wendy Cope is light, breezy and sunny. This is from 'Poem for the Day One'. She wrote on a hot Saturday afternoon instead of going to do a Sainsbury's shop - a woman after my own heart! Read in the garden with a large glass of Pimms and lemonade.

Summer Villanelle

You know exactly what to do -

Your kiss your fingers, on my thigh -

I think of little else but you.

It's bliss to have a lover who,

Touching one shoulder, makes me sigh -

You know exactly what to do.

You make me happy through and through,

The way the sun lights up the sky-

I think of little else but you.

I hardly sleep - an hour or two;

I can't eat much and this is why-

You know exactly what to do.

The movie in my mind is blue -

As June runs into warm July

I think of little else but you.

But is it love? And is it true?

Who cares? This much I can't deny;

You know exactly what to do;

I think of little else but you.

Wendy Cope