Seven Segments of Summer

shorts,white socks sandals and panama- winter-white legs no wind,blue skies dozing in a deckchair- my afternoon tea,stews hottest day of summer flying ants on high- a mac' swallows drive by # open air party- night muzak,unheard except by the neighbours ripples on the pond empty lily pads- our frogs dive for more sunscreen a swarm of crane flies starlings aereate the lawn- leather-jackets to go # old-timers tea dance- everyone skip-jives in slow-motion After a poetic idea of August Kleinzahler