Posted by: Kate | August 17, 2010
Summer Swim
Heat.
Hot air,
Burning sphere in the clear sky.
Sweat and stickiness.
Grumpy, ornery, snappish.
Must find relief.
Hot drive.
Windows open, blowing hot air.
Parked cars.
Walk across hot sand.
Don’t wait.
Dive.
Cool liquid love.
Clean strokes, swimming.
Slick, wet hair.
Refreshed.
Human again.
Saved by the lake.
Posted in beach, natural surroundings, poetry, summer
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Rocks, Waves, Beach 
Ahh, this is wonderful! These words totally evoke a hot summer’s day, today being one of them. Thx Kate :) I love the end, ‘refreshed, human again, saved by the lake’. Awesome.
By: Kim on August 17, 2010
at 7:46 pm
Very nice!
By: Terri on August 17, 2010
at 9:30 pm
Excellent! :)
By: Rona on August 18, 2010
at 8:30 am
Reminds me of summers I’ve spent in the Midwest. I haven’t been to a lake in a long time.
By: Denise | Chez Danisse on August 18, 2010
at 11:51 am
You captured it perfectly in words.
By: Rachel on August 25, 2010
at 10:26 pm
[…] anecdotal, conversational style. I think this blog truly represents me, in all its random ways. And the poetry makes me […]
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