Remembering a Summer Day

Shake out your warning

Like the girl

    with shiny blonde hair

Silken on the breeze

Fighting the tangled interference

 

A toss

    a shake

Fingers run through

Holding it aloft

    strand by salty strand

Pulled tight against

    her pounding head

 

Soft gentle hands

    faintly bending

So strong and swift

Petting down all the stray fuzzy curls

    to tie it together

With the sweetcorn yellow ribbon

That has left a pale tan line

    on her wrist

 

Squinting into a distance

    she will never catch up with

Licking the dirt away from fullest of young lips

Smile at the sky

    before running away 

            ~K.A. Pitman