Abott, Jhon

English

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Floodwall Magazine Volume 1 Issue 1 Article 8 2021 The Way Summers Used To Be Jhon Abott Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.und.edu/floodwall-magazine  Part of the Fiction Commons, Nonfiction Commons, Photography Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Abott, Jhon (2021) "The Way Summers Used To Be," Floodwall Magazine: Vol. 1 : Iss. 1 , Article 8. Available at: https://commons.und.edu/floodwall-magazine/vol1/iss1/8 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by UND Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Floodwall Magazine by an authorized editor of UND Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact und.commons@library.und.edu. The Way Summers Used To Be All that cassette tape unwound, cast aside on sidewalks and train tracks we walk on summer days with nothing to do but shield our eyes from the reflected light and continue to look for the bottles and pop cans that would buy us candy or baseball cards. Sometimes we'd find a cassette relatively untouched and we would rip out the tape, string it along behind us as we walked as if it would never run out, as if the summer days would never end and the sight of these discarded items would always be as common as the heat of the midday sun.     1Abott: The Way Summers Used To BePublished by UND Scholarly Commons, 2021About John Abott John Abbott is a writer, musician, and English instructor who lives with his wife and daughter in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Potomac Review, Georgetown Review, Midwestern Gothic, Arcadia, Underground Voices, Atticus Review, upstreet, Tipton Poetry Journal, and many others. He recently completed his first book of poems. For more information about his writing, please visit johnabbottauthor.com.  2Floodwall Magazine, Vol. 1 [2021], Iss. 1, Art. 8https://commons.und.edu/floodwall-magazine/vol1/iss1/8

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