#scaffold

hot Sunday---
a worker on a scaffold
his sweat drops on passers by

#Fountain

Madison Square Fountain---
dimes outshine pennies
ten to one

#pollution

Summer polluted air
turn on the air conditioner---
more pollution

#long

the long days of Summer---
I start reading
Marcel Proust again

#pizza

dry and hot day---
a pizza cook
goes on his lunch break

#bar

Summer fireworks---
a man at the bar
makes an obscene gesture

#cat

gloomy Summer day---
a black cat
chases a moth

#squirrel

July morning---
a squirrel stands
to do Tai Chi

#meal

Independence Day---
an illegal immigrant
serves me a meal

#Fourth

Fourth of July---
another day
at Guantanamo Bay

#boardwalk

late night on the boardwalk---
a woman asks me
for a light

#night

old couple view
a distant lighthouse---
July moonless night

#sunset

July sunset---
she drops the mango pit
into the ocean

#lemonade

at the beach
a kid says he made
the lemonade---salty