This is perhaps the quintessential romantic poem, that moment of lost love, still hanging in the air after its substance is gone. I tried to work in all those tangible physical images of attraction that ring in our minds, and also to work in elements of loss, the portraits that remind us of happier times, and the feeling of a relationship going nowhere, ending up like that moon, or that summer, that started out so promising and wound up empty and meaningless. Alliterations are a big part of the musical elements of this poem, and I tried to create drama out of the line breaks. estory

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