This quadrille was written for dVerse where we are asked to ponder: “itch.”
Reality Check
Summer’s finally here
Reading in the sunshine
Frozen icy delights
Evenings on the deck
spying golden fireflies
Contentment,
lemonade dreams
Star gazing schemes
Bite, bite
on the ankle, wrist, thigh
itching everywhere
even where no mosquito alights.
Itch here, itch there.
Itching freaking everywhere.
end
Sascha Darlington 7/16/2018
Yes, there is a price to be paid for the solitude of outdoors. What is funny to me is that we never used to even notice, especially because the house was so hot, a few bites were just not worth worrying over. We played well into the night, and then sat on porches talking to neighbors. Miss those days sometimes, but air conditioning is so wonderful!
Yes. I remember catching fireflies, must have gotten bit by mosquitoes but didn’t notice. Summers used to be gentler.
One itch sometimes makes me want to scratch all over.
Yikes, now I am afraid to go out lest something bites me ~ I prefer walking and hiking under the summer shades ~
Thank you, Grace! 🙂
Yep – that’s pretty much been my experience this summer.
even though it’s been really dry here this July, it doesn’t seem to phase the mosquitoes.
I’ve managed to be off the mosquito menu so far this summer. I must not be very tasty.
Hopefully you’ll stay that way! 🙂
no mozzies here, just wasps of which 3 bit me and I’m allergic. Guess what! Cut an onion in slices and tape to the bite and it pulls the stinger and you live! dang it worked! felt a bit shakey and lay down for a few but a ring that was 2 1/2 inches in diameter and puffed up went down in an hour. woot woot
yikes! Hope you’re better now.
Yep, survived! The onion was a godsend. It works! I’m fine no residual effects. phew
Oh dear! We hope you can find a way to enjoy your Summer bliss safe from mozzies! 🙂💖 xxx
Thank you. We are trying! 🙂
Oh gosh tell me about it 😥 I have to be extra careful when I go exploring the woods in Summer .. those mosquitoes can be deadly!
and once they find you, the crazy dance ensues. 🙂
Laughing out loud at that last line! 🙂
And nostalgic at your description of the fireflies….we LOVED them in the evenings in Iowa….where we raised our children with fresh tomatoes and sweet corn for our garden….and catching jars for fireflies and the occasional grasshopper! 🙂 No fireflies in Boston — living right in the city in a high rise, I step out onto our balcony and enjoy the city’s twinkling lights in all the buidings…urban fireflies! 🙂
Funny, you have me trying to remember if I’ve ever seen any in downtown DC.
I love the contrast you create between the two stanzas. And the image–that is AMAZING. Wow.
Thank you so much, Victoria! 🙂
BZZZZ CHOMP! Summer still rocks! Nice mood contrast, brings a smile
Thank you so much, Lona! 🙂
Yes, it’s firefly season (and mosquito season) here in Iowa now 🙂
Ha! Funny how they come in tandem. Except, I guess, some places just get the mosquitoes.
They sure know how to interrupt our solitude. I could visualize some chaotic arm waving in that second stanza!
haha! That was in one of my last wooded adventures when suddenly it seems like a thousand mosquitoes find you. 🙂 Thanks, Mish!