Adding a article description in the frontmatter

Middleman provides a ‘summary’ function but when I have picture or h1 in the beginning of my article the output in the index page looks awful. I d’like to know can someone gives me a clue how to proceed to add a summary whithin the frontmatter or any other way that I could accomplish this

Can you abstract the h1 and or image out of the article into the article front matter & then change your article page template to use those front matter values to put those title/image values back into the desired article layout?

Doing so would let you focus the summary function on the article content than get “hung up” on layout elements