Paulette Suddarth

Under the Shade of a Fig Tree

In Uncategorized on April 6, 2009 at 5:59 pm

Horseshoe shaped Flamenco Beach
One mile across
White fine grained sand
the locals call diamond dust.

Blue sky
White clouds
Eighty five degrees
Trade winds moderate the heat.

Six inch wavelets meet the shore
Small surf breaks
on a sand bar fifty feet out
Water only waist deep there.

No gray water here
No gun metal blue water here
No dark green water here
Like in Washington state.

Water here is
Turquoise blue
Turquoise green or
transparent.

There is a MILF
Sunbathing thirty feet away
Bikini top and short shorts
Nice tan.

Jabba the Hut’s three sisters
are lounging on chairs
in the sand
Under shade of a fig tree.

All have tans
All reading books
Guessing all divorced
living on ex-husbands money.

The one
in a one piece
Has shape like
a barrel.

The one one her back
in a two piece
has the bottom part
pulled over her dewlap.

Big fat t_ _ _ _
look like
water balloons
lying on a floor.

The other one
just looks
like
Jabba.

Damn
the
MILF
left.

Now one guy
shows up with
five girls.
I bet he has the car.

Three girls lay down on their backs
Heads pointed to the ocean
instead of feet
Interesting view.

Paulette swings in a hammock
slung between two palm trees.
Legs dangle from either side
Not a care in the world.

It’s still
snowing
in
Seattle.

Culebra Island, March 2009
Terry Suddarth

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