Remember sunburn. Your whole skin
turning red and peeling
off in delicious layers
after the pain had gone.
No sunblock to be found anywhere, using
anything you could find
instead. Baby oil maybe, beauty cream.
Remember checking
the slow tide lines of tan, pressing
arms and legs together
for comparison. Remember freckles
spreading out across your face
like raindrops and how you couldn’t sleep
all night, sheets burning
against your heated skin. Remember
the cool plunge of swimming,
how good it felt and looking down
to see your legs, pale and distorted
by the wavering water, and maybe
a crab, scuttling sideways, reaching
up its delicate claws towards you.
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