Telling Secrets in the Summer

Telling secrets in the summer –

walking down the beach into the breach

and reach of confidences shared, compared

and sneaked into the roasting air and heat

as if to dry them out like melba toast to eat --

to keep to recollect for later, where in their

confined particularity, when you’re alone

and cool, you might then peek to check

if anything you said was true: well,

that’s a thing that you could do.







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