Summer sets…
stuffed red wagon
left at the curb
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Summer sets…
toddlers churn
through the wading pool
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Summer sets…
sweat on my left wrist dries
faster than my right
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Summer sets…
fire truck howls
like a hollow tooth
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From a sunken throne,
potentate breathes
in bubbles
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Reticence
fouled by the waters of love…
blood incidental
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Truck horn,
punctuation
for no sentence
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Summer sets…
I clamp suspenders
to my long pants
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Nobody knows…
my nail fungus
detente
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Summer sets…
sunburned earlobes
scratch the pillow
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Summer sets…
little boy bows
to landing ducks
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…no longer
time enough left to watch
all the films he wants
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Summer sets…
my watch band,
cracked ancient
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Summer sets…
dog’s ball rolls
alone
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Summer sets…
ball-peen hammer wedged
in the chicken coop
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A personal day…
saliva dries
on my pillow
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Gondola…
buoy…
sticky late summer
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I jot
sunset/sunrise times…
breeze sweetens
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tanka:
And the sun
does not fail…
deciding,
merely,
to withhold heat
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How regal…
three fingers to the blanket,
near sunset
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Bus stop bench…
tendrils
pop-rock to the breeze
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Window left open
(a crack)…
breeze, this side please
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No rain…
spider out my window,
jiggled with the wind
☯️
Soap bubbles–
kinfolk…
peering out the door
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To meet the Master
I resolve:
Shave twice a month!
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I hadn’t felt
(until he destroyed it)
the worthlessness
