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A Poem About Summer

Mary Sarkisian 1971 (Holden)

Free verse
There once was a time that I celebrated your arrival. The anticipation of your presence made my small knees quake.
Now I stand in front of the bathroom mirror, a middle aged woman desperately trying to apply makeup as rivers of sweat pour down the sides of my face and back, coming to rest in a glorious swamp in the back of my Bat Man underpants.

About this poem

This is from a series I’m working on entitled “Menoprose”

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Written on August 28, 2022

Submitted by lovemarythequeen on January 13, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Scheme AB
Characters 347
Words 67
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
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