SIESTA 1964

A BOY AND GIRL AND HER MOTHER ON A SUMMERY DAY IN 1964

She unzips
the zip of my jeans
her mother's

in the kitchen
getting drinks
-soft drinks

not hot stuff
in this heat-
her fingers

thin and spidery
search for my fellow
I anxious stare

kitchen-ward
at the maybe
approaching mother

he's slack
she says
soft voice

breathing
disappointment
he sleeps

it's his siesta
in this heat
I say

not looking away
Milka zips up the fly
and licks her

spidery fingers
one by one
here you are

her mother says
on returning
with drinks in hands

nice and cold
and straws for both
and lays them down

on the table where
we stood
she smiles

Milka frowns
and my fellow sleeps
that's good.

Reviews

[Cherry Pepperweb]

These are moments to remember forever. :)

[Terry Collett]

Thank you, Cherry