“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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