<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397191" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Summer I Was Sixteen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The turquoise pool rose up to meet us,<br>its slide a silver afterthought down which<br>we plunged, screaming, into a mirage of bubbles.<br>We did not exist beyond the gaze of a boy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shaking water off our limbs, we lifted<br>up from ladder rungs across the fern-cool<br>lip of rim. Afternoon. Oiled and sated,<br>we sunbathed, rose and paraded the concrete,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">danced to the low beat of &quot;Duke of Earl&quot;.<br>Past cherry colas, hot-dogs, Dreamsicles,<br>we came to the counter where bees staggered<br>into root beer cups and drowned. We gobbled</div><div style="margin:10px 0">cotton candy torches, sweet as furtive kisses,<br>shared on benches beneath summer shadows.<br>Cherry. Elm. Sycamore. We spread our chenille<br>blankets across grass, pressed radios to our ears,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">mouthing the old words, then loosened<br>thin bikini straps and rubbed baby oil with iodine<br>across sunburned shoulders, tossing a glance<br>through the chain link at an improbable world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Geraldine+Connolly">Geraldine Connolly</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397191" data-title="The Summer I Was Sixteen de Geraldine Connolly" data-description="The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, its slide a silver afterthought down which we plunged, screaming, into a mirage of bubbles. We did not exist beyond the gaze of a boy. Shaking water off our limbs, we lifted up from ladder rungs across the f..."></div> </div> </div>

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