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Services for Real Estate Pros with Lee County Notary/Lee County Artist

In the dogs days of a Florida summer, it is fun to look back at this past Fort Myers Beach Winter.

In southern Florida, we don't experience cold fronts, but rather "cool fronts".

As the night gathers dust, the temperatures fall into the low 50's and the air is chilly when I awaken.  I turn the heat on while I shower and dress myself in a pin striped pantsuit for work.  My husband places a shawl around me before I step out of the door.  When I step out of my offce door at ten o'clock to indulge in my first cigarette of the day, I find the sun shining brightly and the warmth of the Florida sun has caused the temperatures to rise to nearly 70.  At lunch,  I write a poem:

 

GODDESS OF THE SUN

February cool fronts blow in

and out of a Florida island,

The women wear sweaters

Over their bikinis

All except Diana

She wears a leather jacket

Black as a hurricaine sky

Smooth as Santana,

Discards it in the sand

Discards her blanket and lover too

As the temperature rises just past noon,

All to run after a boy with a lighter

"Smokers are a dying breed,"

I hear the echo of her tropical giggle

She follows the boy into a beach bar

While another cool front drifts into town,

I scoop up her discarded jacket

Ease my way onto her blanket and light up

The cigarette of Diana's bronzed man

With my jaded green lighter

We contemplate the forest green ocean

For a long sultry second,

Sufficient time for him

To fall for my siren's song:

We drive to Miami for dinner.

Goddess

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LLoyd Nichols
Premier Florida Realty - Fort Myers, FL
Southwest Florida Homes By The Sea
Diana in a leather jacket? That works for me. Did you return the jacket you scooped up? And how was diner in Miami?
Aug 07, 2007 10:19 AM
Karen Nichols
Lee County Notary/Lee County Artist - Fort Myers Beach, FL
You know that I would only have dinner in Miami with you.
Aug 08, 2007 01:50 AM
Sean Allen
International Financing Solutions - Fort Myers, FL
International Financing Solutions

hhhmmm, Interesting poem. I bet that leather jacket was a bit sandy.

Sean Allen

Sep 19, 2008 02:09 PM