Document 1491
Summertime
Author(s): Sheila Templeton
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hurrying in from the ice cream van,
their booty of vanilla piled high
in an old baking bowl,
like a wedding celebration
melting in laughter.
Straightening stocking seams,
they shouted for lemonade, better still
a big bottle of American Cream Soda,
long spoons and the tallest glasses
from the kitchen press.
We sat outside, legs dangling
from a scarred bench made of old
railway sleepers, stirring our floats
pearling clear glass with sticky strands
set forever in beaded DNA of memory.
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