Summer Ablutions

Contributor: Donal Mahoney

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Stunned by July in a hammock
he remembers the apricot wife
no longer here
one curler more and the flutter
of leaves in the orchard
the sound of trees
letting go
a downpour of plums
flowing over
the wicker
propped open
below


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Donal Mahoney lives in St. Louis, Missouri.