Summer Time

I’m lying on the floor; if I hold still,

Perfectly still, I will not be too warm.

Bug carcasses litter the windowsill;

The screen lets in the buzzing of the swarm.

Powdered iced tea, or homemade lemonade,

With ice (the condensation drips and runs).

Late evenings, cloying smell of jasmine laid,

The fireflies rise blinking from the lawns.

Sharp chlorine, warm hose water, sand in toes,

Slow-flowing creeks and rivers, crisp brown hills.

Lightning and thunder clap, warm water blows,

And green corn rises from neat-furrowed fields.

Summer is always different, yet the same

As nature plays her yearly waiting game.