The Summer of Love and Fresh Air
written by: Ingrid Wilson
@Experimentsinfc
It was the summer of love and fresh air:
God knows how we made it through,
with barely two red cents to rub together
you lit up my smile, did up my hair
We took trips with the children
packed sandwiches
didn’t worry about the rain
ran free through parks and gardens,
the next morning, did it all over again
Collapsed, exhausted, heaped beneath the sheets
woke early, sought out one another’s lips
as I breathed in the scent of you,
you held my hands, my hips
We managed it! Not only did we manage, we
excelled – ‘cost of living crisis’ and ‘austerity’
cage-words to tame the fire in you and me
while all the while, defiantly we
burned brighter
JAN/FEB 2021 AUTHOR OF THE MONTH at Spillwords.com
Ingrid is a writer and independent publisher via her publishing house Experiments in Fiction. She published Amazon-bestselling poetry anthology 'Wounds I Healed' in June 2022, and is to publish the first solo poetry collection by Jeff Flesch, 'Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow,' on 1 September 2022. Her own work has been published widely both online and in print, and she was nominated for Spillwords Author of the Year 2021. You can find out more about her work and publishing activities at her website - Experiments in Fiction.
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