Ode to Sun-Drenched Sheets
In urban homes your day now passed
shuttled to limbo by tumbling hot air
conjured instantly
with dials and buttons.
Once you spent days flapping leisurely.
Capturing every breeze,
sailing over rose bushes and green lawn
anchored only by clothes pins.
Did you pass the hours coveting
release with each gust?
Set free, would you have cruised to foreign lands,
Cameroon, Tibet, Istanbul –
Learning the meaning of life?
Now enclosed in darkness,
Cramped and tossed with artificial “Bounce”
scented wind. Do you dream of the line –
scents of grass and summer roses
captured in your fibers?
Crawling into your fresh warmth,
I yearned for you, sun-drenched
bringing incensed dreams of sights unseen.
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LaVonne France is a Philadelphia poet working on emerging. Her poetry appears in Imposter, Ekphrastic Review, Royal Beauty, published by Arts by the People, and the National Library of Poetry Anthologies. An African American poet, her works focus on love, loss, family, and racism. LaVonne is a former Forensic Toxicologist and Pharmaceutical Project Manager who’s shifted her love of discovery to art. She enjoys hanging out with her husband and artist friends, painting, writing, or sampling the varied cuisine of Philly’s food mecca.
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