All summer long
mama’s porch caught and nestled the breeze
for the ladies.
Round, round the rafters it ambled,
swooped down
circled about our lil’ darlin’s
and leapt up
in impetuous gusts to tangle pixie bangs.
Sigh
red-freckled cheeks,
lollipop impressions falling fast on our laps,
making sweet, sweet laughter.
Smiles sipping so-cold sodas
in effortless satisfaction
with cool, cool beads of bliss
on the lips of the ladies.
Afternoons
dillydallied mixing company with
the persistent lover puffing its breath
in jasmine balm and pungent geranium
bouquets for the ladies.
Temperamental bursts
blushing,
fluttering soft lapels against our white throats,
and lazy chimes shake, shake, shaking delirium
with a sudden slap.
~
Easy, honeyed wind swept round the porch
Remember
the soft slender hands
all summer long
~
Summers
pretty ladies catching promises ferried on the wind
all
summer
long
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Dedicated to Trisha, Darlene and Diane ... and all our kids
