Scrapbook Summer

I come back from holidays with a bundle of travel brochures picked up from here and there, old maps, receipts, business cards … odd bits of paper kept as mementos. Eventually I sort through them, discard some, then make a scrapbook complete with photos to be browsed on a winter night … memories of summer …

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SCRAPBOOK SUMMER                                         

brochures … maps worn
at the creases

coffee rings make new contour lines
wine stains create new lakes
pencil marks obliterate towns
roads thickened by buttered fingers …

postcards of forgotten views
and folders of explored excitements
these acquisitions of travel
stockpiled to become
the scrapbook story
of summer

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published in Sagacity Magazine

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The Willow Tree Girl for ages 7-11 … Weston doesn’t miss a beat as she untangles past and present, ghosts, missing treasure, and her heroine’s longing for success.