Suzanne Summers & Shelly Winters

Junior varsity
Cloying viscosity
David Cassidy
Teen Beat sagacity

Let’s begin.
Through thick and thin,
I for one
Feel the thrum.

Carve the memories.
Coil the misdeeds.
Tuck them under
The couch cushion seeds.

The quiet days
Pull down like shades,
When I recall
The glint of rays

On wheat fields and hay.
The open air array
With mocking birds
Now mum for words

I cannot hear, though
The vision clear.
A thick drooping bough
Hangs then to now.

2/3/23