Eaves

Alisa Partlan
1 min readJun 30, 2020

— And isn’t there something delightful about ephemera?

The way heat radiates from skin on a late September night

Just before the mercury drops

And children heed dinner bells, cracking voices,
Rust-bitten gates ajar,

The way these
words form
waves
delicious on my tongue
and are gone?

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