"Storm Before the Calm"

Sharing Stories

September 11, 2022 at 6:52 p.m.

I dress for me now!

...by Ariele M. Huff

"Storm Before the Calm"

In the center of the cyclone
I,
watching hormones racing by.

Laugh—
It’s funny, isn’t it?

She wants him;
he wants her;
they want “it.”

Wading in sweet dark chocolate.
I remember when….
Thank you, goddess…
never again.

Ariele Huff, Aberdonian, wrote this when she was a “freshman senior” (fifties) not a “sophomore senior“ (sixties) or a junior senior” (seventies) as she is now at 72. "Senior senior" starts at a little older than I am at any given time.

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