21
Apr
Summer (In CutBank Journal Issue 74)
Summer:
I am capable of lying-
there is no open space
that your mother didn’t tell you about
no swollen finger worth crying over
no bargain to be had in the basement-
we have wood rot, I know, the neighbor
is doing something about his, the salt water,
the long summer, the wind. I can deal with termites,
shit I’ve already dealt with them.
You think when you buy a home… Yes, the neighbor is friendly
enough to lend you a blue pill here, a white one there,
he is a nice man. That is what nice men do. He is nice.
We agree, I don’t know who will cut the lawn,
things of this nature, they take time.
They don’t. They do.
Is there a date, it’s nearly summer. Fall comes
soon. I agree. It comes soon but
the summer is what kill us,
the heat, the wind, the salt,
it’s the summer we shouldn’t
keep trying for.
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