Reaching for Sun by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer

Author:Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2007-09-02T20:00:00+00:00

ripples of sunlight

Mom surprises Granny and me

with a weekend getaway

to celebrate the start of summer,

our first-ever vacation.

But best of all—

she invites Jordan!

The three-room cabin

is built on stilts and it feels

like a tree house

hidden in leaves.

The campground has mini golf,

movies out under the stars,

and a lake!

Granny wears her goofy

polka-dotted bathing suit

with the frilly skirt;

her wide hips

slip out the side like bread dough

rising in a pan.

She doesn’t seem to care—

floats on top of the lake

like she owns the whole place.

Mom’s turquoise bikini

flaunts her taut muscles

and sculpted thighs.

Her red hair fans out

like a peacock behind her.

Jordan is pasty white

in his black swimming trunks;

his shoulders look like the nub

of new growth on a tree.

In my swimsuit I feel exposed—

a seedling in a late frost.

My bony limbs all akimbo,

gaps in my purple suit instead of curves

like all the other girls

seem to have,

but my body nearly obeys me in water.

Jordan notices my freedom

though he doesn’t seem to see the rest,

and we dunk each other

and chase,

his warm hands on my goose-fleshed

arms;

for the first time

someone touches me

like I won’t shatter under their fingers.

Ripples of sunlight

spill in my veins,

and I wish

just this once

I could stop time.

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