How Soon We Forget

1 Water jumps and tumbles to the wet sand
2 splashing bare legs as a single sheet of frozen glass.
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4 Tepidity abounds as the sun rejuvenates
5 the world at a molecular level with the promise of an aspiring year.
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7 Waves thrust upon the skin cut to the bone
8 with ecstasy that is cold water in premature spring.
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10 The wind and the chill of the planet today help forget
11 how hot the sun burns in the coming-of-age century.

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