Summer

grasshoppers, butterflies, fireflies and crickets
sudden summer showers
the smell of ozone on the air

   humidity
   long, slow evenings
   silhouette twilight's

      soft summer breezes
      busy honeybees
      sunflowers

        tomatoes
        peaches
        country roads with tar bubbles

          laundry air drying on a clothes line
          hand hewed clothes posts
          clothes pins

            blankets thrown over grass
            girls sunbathing
            frogs singing at night

              porch lights
              bicycles
              vacations, picnics, family reunions

                neighborhood baseball
                swings, teeter-totters, aluminum slides
                orange and fudgesicles

                   hay rides
                   huckleberries at the side of the road
                   aurora borealis

this was my childhood summer.