Rain in most areas has evaporated,
sun out
flat, skittish
Kites out: Promethean
soar toward flame.
Oh rain, bathe the strip malls
in their own inundation
Their Labrador inaccuracies
Guests wander aimlessly in new rain
without a nose.
Socked, first
day in month for socks.
This noxious brew of cities
and summer
ends.
finally, as summer’s lead softens
the mercury grows firm.
Put away your fast feet,
languishing on the concrete.
Lace up your heavy leathers
your musky lathers
Your huddled masses.
fall comes grunion
big mouth
striped
dappled run,
upstream unpedestrian.
Children will run
hopping on an event
back to school
Heat doesn’t stop fashion nor
does fashion beef up security
But this humidity
Oh, like a pastureland.
Highs of 91, supposedly.
But there are discrepancies in the reporting
from various weather sources.
Hope for the lower high: 86.
