Summer Landscape
Flash Fiction
by Janice D. Soderling
All across Europe that late summer morning, not just in Poland, there were young men waking up beside the young bride they had married the day or week before. Some were farm boys who stepped out into a sunny day that ended the harvest month and began something else. The sweet-smelling hay was mown and stacked; songbirds warbled and prepared their exodus; a cat meowed and rubbed up against strong-muscled legs; pipes were tamped and lit. Recalling the naked flesh of the young bride still asleep, or pretending to be, their many smiles were loosed into the air and many young men felt their manhood rise. This with some variation, happened all across Europe.
It was August 31, 1939.
Janice D. Soderling has published hundreds of poems, flash fiction, short stories and translations, most recently at Eclectica, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily and Forms in Formless Times. She is a previous contributor to Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Her latest poetry collection is titled "The Women Come and Go, Talking" and soon forthcoming "Naming the Names."
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