Wednesday, May 21, 2008

POEM: Just Getting Started

The sun, white-hot, burns
the blue from the sky,
until all is red
with fire. Hurts to breathe.
Each inhalation
a scythe scraping lungs
dry, as void as the
air, outside. And it's
just getting started:
the h e a t of summer.

(c) 2008, Karla Dorman.

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