August 3, 2017

AUGUST

August doesn’t carry much glitter

or glamour. It’s a so, so month.

For kids there’s the suspicion - the

sense - that it’s back to school soon -

with moms buying school supplies

and clothes for the upcoming school year.

It’s hot and humid. Lawns are dry - hard -

and dust flies when they are mowed.

Latino laborers are in the fields -

digging and picking up potatoes.

Then there’s the evenings - beer

and wine - and voices can be heard

from invisible people on porches

or lawns or stoops or steps.

They don’t have enough of

those cool breezes that could

make moments on dark porches

or comfortable coves or inlets,

much more memorable. April and

October, November and December,

now they have the possibility of a

lot more pizzazz and a lot more push.

© Andy Costello, Reflections  2017