my city sings a summer song
with sirens, shouts, honks, and horns
solar rays over an asphalt haze
lingering long lunar days
basketballs poppin’ off
the pavement
like bare feet on hot
sand
running bases, bicycle
races
dirty sneakers with
untied laces
fire hydrants drenching
a burning land
comic books, gumballs,
fireworks, a lemonade stand
hot dogs, hamburgers,
the ice cream man
fistfights, tree forts,
sleeping under the moon
will-o'-the-wisps . . . gone too soon
all sorts of things
with skies and wings
on the edge
under the sun that
warms
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Sorts of Things (1973), With Skies and Wings (1973), On the Edge (1973), and The Sun that Warms (1970) are the titles of
elementary school readers published by Ginn and Company. All images from
The Sun that Warms. I used these textbooks in the 6th grade with Mrs. Skalko at
Public School #19, Albany, NY, 1975-1976. See below (I'm third from right in
the back row).
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Brings back good memories of my own Summers as a boy. You captured the spirit of Summer for a ten year old boy growing up in the 60's. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI probably have better poems from a literary standpoint, but this is my favorite. If only one thing survives that I have written, and this was it, I would be OK with that.
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