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Greetings from Jekyll Island

Today I mailed a postcard

backwards across 54 years

to the knobby kneed 11-year-old

I was in 1966:

Greetings from Jekyll Island


On back, I wrote in blue ink:


Relish your virgin bite

of Original Recipe KFC,

lick the breaded bits

off your fingertips

without apology.


Fill your lungs with briny air,

build a castle six-buckets-tall,

believe:

anything is possible,

fairy tales come true,

stout hearts tame Dragons.


Spend the afternoon

swishing white beach sand

into sand angels

with seashell haloes

and sand dollar eyes.


In the backseat,

on the way home,

close your green eyes,

remember hot

sun on your crown,

ocean thigh high,

sand coated toes.

Savor the only day your mom and dad

– on the brink of their ugly divorce -

forget to fight.


SD Fulton


DAY AT THE BEACH (paper collage, SD Fulton)



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