Tag: summer
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1925
Her peach fuzz lips have supple folds, doughy like wrinkled maple leafs, soft-faded near the end of autumn. Her cherry blossom cheeks, smooth vanilla cream spreads freckled by strawberry seeds; she always dusts his after work dessert in powdered sugar, fresh from the Maybelline jar across the counter. His masonry scars are deep laced; nature’s…
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The Summer of the Humming Bird
In the summer of the hummingbird, I could sit on my back patio swing in the early morning sun, and watch two humming birds dance atop a sugar feeder. The copper lighthouse swayed with soft winds and the cherry nectar drained while the dancers drank the wine. They chirped and hummed along to…
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Child
He scrapped the cheese off his home baked pizza and gave up half way through his organic low fat milk and said, I’m just not that hungry tonight. His eyes scraped the ceiling while I folded metal paper over left overs and I remembered how it was to be 9. 10 years my mind rewinds…
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Summer 2013
The warmth of the sun in the sky and on my skin is reflected in the white of my heart and burning my eyes on your smile. The sand in my shoes between my toes scrapes scars into freckles, falling, forgotten. Soft winds embrace us. The winter in our hearts has gone.
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