<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=545535" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>April Guest</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Summer has arrived too early, <br>before I’ve even set the table.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It does not apologize. I offer it a drink, <br>a stack of magazines, but it’s in a<br>chatty mood, follows me to the kitchen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and warns about the perils of cutting<br>garlic and onions in full sunlight</div><div style="margin:10px 0">tells me a joke about the slashed bagel<br>that rushed to the ER. I pretend<br>to laugh, suggest that summer</div><div style="margin:10px 0">fold the napkins, count the spoons and forks<br>but it keeps talking, the noisiest time of the year</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with all those raucous bar-be-cues and squealing kids, <br>acrobatics applauded by claps of thunder.<br>Perhaps another guest will ring the bell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">dressed for April, keep summer company<br>watching pre-season baseball on TV? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Excuse me, I say, but I must whip the eggs<br>for the soufflé so it will rise just enough.<br>When I set the bowl aside, summer</div><div style="margin:10px 0">warns me about covering food <br>to fend off the bugs and flies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enough. I order summer<br>to serve as my oven, <br>rush to save the ice-cubes </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and dump them down my body<br>just as the rest of the guests begin to arrive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Barbara+F.+Lefcowitz">Barbara F. Lefcowitz</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=545535" data-title="April Guest de Barbara F. Lefcowitz" data-description="Summer has arrived too early, before I’ve even set the table. It does not apologize. I offer it a drink, a stack of magazines, but it’s in a chatty mood, follows me to the kitchen and warns about the perils of cutting garlic and onions in ..."></div> </div> </div>

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