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Summer Sonnet   

by Karen Aprile Rowe 

July's last luscious afternoons

When time is still so full,

We savor it in huge goblets,

Enjoying each sunny day piled on another,

Languid hours of luxury

Like everlasting bubbles.

Unlike August days

When summer's hourglass empties faster,

We worry over wasting precious moments

Once so delicious, so generously stacked before us,

Now so finite, and ephemeral,

Spent grudgingly, like nickels from a coffee can.

Summer's millionaires in June,

Fall's paupers all too soon.

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