Red Haired With Freckles by R. Gerry Fabian

Covered in enough sun screen

to resemble a basted turkey

and wearing a light, long sleeved shirt,

I approach the beach dragging

the moldy cumbersome beach umbrella.

My canvas bag contains two bottles

of UV 50 sun screen,

two towels; one of which is extra long to cover my legs,

a novel where the plot is going nowhere,

several bottles of soon to be warm water

and one large straw beach hat.

My swarthy wife has given me permission

to go into the ocean waves at fifteen minute intervals

followed by the complicated, complete reapplication

of sun screen in total umbrella shade.

While she lies bikini clad on a towel

in the direct sunlight,

I reach for the novel and hope

some sort of plot development occurs

in the next six vacation days.

R. Gerry Fabian is a retired English instructor. As a poet and novelist,

he has been publishing his writing since 1972 in various literary magazines.

Twitter @GerryFabian2

He has published three books of his published poems, Parallels,

Coming Out Of The Atlantic and Electronic Forecasts.

In addition, he has published three novels.

They are Getting Lucky (The Story), Memphis Masquerade, and Seventh Sense.

All these books are available both as ebooks and paperbacks at all publishers

including Amazon, Apple Books and Barnes and Noble.

He lives in Doylestown, PA.

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