skippety-jump

It was July.

respectable
middle-aged women
did a skippety-jump,
smiling

. . . . . . . .

Today's poem|commentary comes, as usual, from the OED's word of the day, 'dump bin.'

Certain unnamed parties have noted that the OED word of the day is sometimes, in fact, more than one 'word.'

Harrumph.

If the word of the day is ever 'word,' perhaps we will have this explained. Absent that, I am putting it down to a metric rounding error.