it is june

Rowan Tate

you return to me

in the simple skin of an italian summer,

birds on sun-washed balconies,

milky sleep and ocean poems, the endless

desert of a nostalgic longing,

childhood. i hold the shape of you

as a tender skyline

against the silhouette of time.

About the Poet

Rowan Tate is a Romanian creative and curator of beauty. She reads nonfiction nature books, the backs of shampoo bottles, and sometimes minds.