Cool Melon

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Sunday Social

He is a slice of cool melon,
my clandestine palate cleanser,
delicious refreshment from the salt and grease
of Sunday's fried chicken
and cryptic grown-up gossip.

His fingers, long and gentle tapers, part petals,
litter the ground with yellow blossoms torn
from my slipshod daisy chain. White teeth,
luminous in the half-light of the churchyard's
magnolia shadows, gleam within bursts of words
and laughter deep enough to tranquilize,
to pull me under the starched white sheet
of Summer Afternoon, until I find myself staring
mesmerized by his working Adam's apple,
my chin in hand, elbows sunk
and my Sunday finest damply pressed between skin
and the humidity of spongy soil and sparse Bermuda
as my belly spreads flat, a palm to the earth.

My throat convulses,
hot and dry;
I imagine my first bite of cool melon.

~ eviastarroy

I can't wait for summer and my first bit of melon! Serpentine jade and carnelian dangle from 22k gold -plated French ear hooks. Yummy!

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Added on Sep 13, 2009