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@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Three Summer Poems [XLIX]
1. During The Summer Of My Thirteenth Birthday
When we decided to explore nakedness
(you kept your socks on, forever altering
my sense of beauty), and we touched each other's
pulse-bobbed engorgements, no past differences
remained between us.
2. Summer Vacation Gardening
Rising from sun warmed soil, small sprouts do not know
their seeds had been planted last month by a young
man---long-haired, shirtless, barefoot; baggy jeans---with
his boy friend (similarly clad) during their
hot sixteenth summer.
3. Glimpse Of My Crush That Summer
Summer breezes play in his hair that cascades
well below his shoulders; sunlight caresses
his bare torso; beneath the frayed cuffs of his
baggy jeans, his bare feet are fervently kissed
by long, thick grasses.
Starward
