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Like paper strips her sun
-bled children sleep out
on the old Mako
, lips glittered with stale
chip crumbs matching
how salt dries
in-or-between every fold
of every fingertip which
dared venture
beneath that warm jade
blanket that diesel-filled
Dinoflagellate ball .

Someday he will be a
secret star and she will
be a poet
, but for now their fears
are limited to barnacles
between toes
or a spilled can of root
-beer gone lost forever
not unlike
the days they like paper
strips slept under the sun
on the old Mako .
Since you asked what summer smelled like.
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r-mitchell's avatar
this is a beautiful story. I love that hint of looking-forward, Someday he will be a
secret star and she will
be a poet
, and how you bring it full circle at the end. brilliant :)