{"id":2935,"date":"2016-02-19T03:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T03:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2017-03-25T04:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:31:18","slug":"tourist-season-by-sarah-a-obrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/tourist-season-by-sarah-a-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist Season by Sarah A. O\u2019Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sarahaobrien\"<\/h1>\n

Tourist Season<\/h2>\n

by\u00a0Sarah A. O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n

we watch armies of retreating fiddler crabs
\nwhile you refer to sand beneath our feet
\nas the \u201cgraveyard of the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n

we debate the emotional lives of canines,
\nand cruelties of keeping prairie dogs
\nlocked in china cabinets.<\/p>\n

we murmur sweet nothings that mean everything,
\nyour morning smile putting sunrise to shame,
\nclich\u00e9s tumbling from my smitten lips.<\/p>\n

we drive despite eyes half-mast,
\n\u201cyou\u2019re my world,\u201d you proclaim,
\nhanding me our mangled umbrella.<\/p>\n

we race to make the bus, but then,
\nbeating it there, you decide instead
\nto hold me in your arms another night.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Tourist Season was originally published in Ghost City Review.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah A. O\u2019Brien enjoys dark chocolate and light wordplay. Sarah\u2019s work has previously appeared in The Alembic, Every Writer, The Screech Owl, Snapping Twig, Ampersand Literary, Third Point Press, Unbroken Journal, Random Sample<\/em> and is forthcoming in Allegro Poetry Magazine<\/em>. Follow her adventures: @fluent_SARAcasm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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