{"id":1671,"date":"2013-05-24T01:05:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T01:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2017-07-11T03:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:42:43","slug":"high-stakes-of-summer-by-gabriella-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/high-stakes-of-summer-by-gabriella-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"High stakes of Summer by Gabriella Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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High stakes of Summer<\/h1>\n

by Gabriella Brand<\/p>\n

We watch the yellow rays of July
\nsplaying across our bedroom floor,
\nplaying poker with our vacation,
\ncajoling us out onto the porch,
\ngambling on thunderclouds,
\nliving high on the hog,
\nbluffing us down to the beach,
\nhiding, seeking, upping the ante.<\/p>\n

But some days hold the promise of a royal flush:
\na small hummingbird hovering over the hollyhocks,
\nfresh raspberries dotting the morning yogurt,
\nenough wind to suck out the sail on the Sunfish,
\ngrilled vegetables curling into dinner
\nfireworks dropping deep into the night.<\/p>\n

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\nGabriella Brand’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Room Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Perigee, The Citron Review, The Mom Egg, and PIF. She has an M.A. from Middlebury College. She divides her time between Connecticut, where she teaches foreign languages, and Quebec, where she canoes, hikes, daydreams and writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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