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bottle cap snapping

ice cube cracking

cola cola

fizzing, frothing

cola cola

I see bubbles

winking blinking

rainbow edged

and edging, on the bottle beading

coolness gliding down the glass adown

down a summer movie pass light violet or

are you still reading that paperback book
from the school book fair and crossing the
moat of words or sliding anywhere

on a slip n' slide

hillside

cloverbee backyard

its holiday holiday hula hooped blue or green and

roses fried by the afternoon

(pre-Chicken dinner)as

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we're dripping from the plastic pool

or on the grass side slipping

cola cola sipping

screen door nipping

little dog tripping over

frothing over

shaken too hard

and lauging laughing in the yard till

your sides hurt and

peach bright ice cream turning turning

crowned with vanilla nostalgic

yearning for

cola cola floats and I'm floating

back on the tide of it all

much later though it's only april

by the wall calender

and pale green now in the parks

I could see your vintage summer lanterns swinging

in the dark

no need to turn the kitchen light on.

mary angela douglas 17 april 2015