Claudia Serea

Summer in October

You know I was late for work
on the warmest day of the week

because I shaved,
showered,

and slipped into a summer dress
for the last time this year,

loving how it swooshed
and clung to my skin.

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Claudia Serea’s poems have appeared in Field, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She has published five poetry collections, most recently Twoxism, a collaboration with photographer Maria Haro (8th House Publishing, 2018).

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