By Briana Kassia
Date: 2008 Jul 02
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Summerswing

swing me wide in my pale green dress
catch my bottom in your hand
momentarily and push
again again laughing
I swing wide and high
skirts aflutter
toes pointed
and a smile
in the pit of my stomach

sometimes you make me
dizzy like this
spun wide and thready
a feathered fine
cloud drifting
in that deep amethyst sky
drifting till I come down
summer rain soft
or a morning mist
and kiss your eyelashes
closed against the fall
droplets kissing your face

push me harder, baby
swing me higher until
I am twelve again
and innocent
of pain