I'm a 10-Month Girl

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Of the 12-month calendar,
I get thru February by escaping
into a fireplace and reading and sleeping.

By August,
what was beautiful, fresh and new in April
blossomed in May
produced in June and July
and now a teensey yellow...
and insect eaten...
is a tad wilty in August.

And unless I'm very near, on or in lake water
I'm breathing nicely inside a closed-up-
air-conditioned-jail-type-house.

A little like February without the fire.

No...I'm not wishing time away;
I'll keep watering the poseys...
and I'll see you soon, my beautiful
scrunch-sock-sweat-shirt-neck-scarf days!

artwork via simpleblueprint

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