Summer Advisory
Melissa Balmain

Welcoming as August apricots,
the parents smile from chairs beside the pool
and—as you settle in with towels and tots—
share juicy inside scoops on kids from school,
their parents and their babysitters too;
then, faces turning rosy with delight,
they sweetly ask what’s going on with you.
Don’t bite.

- - -

Melissa’s notes: “Wishing all you WM readers a peachy—but maybe not apricotty—month!”

- - -

Melissa Balmain edits Light, North America’s longest-running journal of comic verse, and teaches writing at the University of Rochester. Her poems and/or prose have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Ecotone, The Hopkins Review, Lighten Up Online, Literary Matters, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Nimrod, Poetry Daily, and Rattle. Her latest book of poetry is Satan Talks to His Therapist (Paul Dry Books).

- - -

Hop to…

Summer Advisory Melissa Balmain

Summer Advisory
Melissa Balmain