The drying sun scalds A tree of drooping red pods The humming planes are low enough To brush with jealous fingertips Shrubbery sprawls over landscape Like frazzled starfish A name--Jason--engraved In concrete not yet dry A squeaking rope fastens A willful flag to its pole Windows of a lonely skyscraper Glow pink in sleepy sunlight Choruses of weary air conditioners Ricochet between adobe houses Breezes dance along baked concrete And chase us inside
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