brother sparrow

I'm holding june like a treasure because I don't want to hush the marshmallow-clouded mornings and the sparkling silver linings at night.
I'm telling myself that now is the now and still, I find myself looking at horizons and building castles in the sky.
the clock hands are waving goodbyes to forgotten times but there is no tears in farewell, just glances over teacups of ginger tea and as soon as the flowers have dried I will pin them at my walls. they don't even lose their colour.
how mortal it all is, still it is there and mine for a moment.
later this month there will be strawberry-kissing and pillow-sharing with the boy and we'll tell stories of foreign countries and going away in an old bus and I'll show him around in the sky castle where there is a room of tents and tipis and telling each other everything.
I find gifts and surprises in my inbox, like the beautiful soles above. I admired them on many other girls' feet and now I am thanking nelly for making me equally happy, I see fun times ahead for us.
I'm declaring these happy days.

photography by sarah patzak