3 leaf clovers

The time was right for dropping

Zippos in three leaf clovers.

We were on our way to the mailbox.

I dropped my lighter and you paused ever so lovingly to pick it up.

It was over as soon as it began.

You rose from your knees

giving my lighter

and taking my breath.

 

Raymond M. Strickland 1993

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