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Yellow Bathing Suit
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Literary Review of Canada
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July 1, 2008
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A Parisian memory - the seventeenth arrondissement,
Jean-Guy eating chèvre, walnuts, sweet pear with lemon
and salt in our bed. Today's heat-wave jog, this tentative body,
wanting to dive into nostalgia, a sickness like hate. Yet that
bathing suit, his wiry weave through blue waves. Are there others
like me waiting to receive love's promise? The glorious clash
him, fire; me, twenty-one, searing emotion, attracted to
and repulsed by us.
Yellow is sickly.
I told him -jaundice, citron, c'est mal.
How could I have known that was the pivot, the kick
and swell away from me. ...