Summer

by Jo Anne Richardson

Remember that day in the park?
We ate ice cream
Chocolate chip
A double scoop
And when a
little
tiny
bit
Fell on my leg
You licked it off.

Jo Anne Richardson is a Seattle-based poet and author who recently left Microsoft to form her own company (Rich Write Communications). You can read her poetry in the Spring 2006 issue of Uncapped by clicking on the Archives link.