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Why Do They Call You Summer?

by Ian Whiteley

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Why Do They Call You Summer?

 

Why do they call you summer

When your name is April?

Your fragrant scent of early roses

Permeates the room

And sunlight cuts across

The blue Axminster carpet

Bleaching the swirling dust

And warms tables to the touch.

 

I long for your cool hands

Across my fevered brow

But all you give me

Is clammy, blanketing heat.

 

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Friday 26th April 2019 12:00 am

all the senses   day 25   NaPoWriMo 2019   record breaking   rhetorical question   seasons   spring heat

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