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
gathering light in
pocketfuls of night
under the sun that
warms
All
Sorts of Things, With Skies and Wings, and The Sun that Warms are the titles of
elementary school readers published by Ginn and Company (1973). 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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