Summer Fun

Sweat pants and wool socks a hand-knitted scarf or two warm mittens and hats no doubt you think I’m nuts Rosy cheeks and runny nose soggy boots and frozen toes chattering teeth and quivering knees when I dream, it is of these Down jackets now long packed away skis and poles just taking up space in my crowded messy garage snow covered runs - just a mirage Sun screen and flip flops sunglasses and sticky pits baseball caps and Thanksgiving in shorts I despair of weather reports How did I get to this eternal hell? where A/C costs you a paycheck as well where tender skin exposed continues to burn . . . I just know somewhere I missed a turn.