#over

Olympics are over---

Obama comes back
as a mortal

#man

bar bathroom---
they fight
over a man

#fish

fish market
Atlantic salmon---
I caught bigger this morning

#dawn

dawn---
the smell of watermelon
from last night garbage

#food

restaurants food too expensive---
she wants to go
to McDonald's

#party

wedding party---
groom much younger than the bride
Summer ends

#sings

Tony Bennett sings---
I age well
too

#wind

wind fueled---Hurricane Fay shows
Daytona Beach what fast
really looks like

#war

August---
always good weather
for a war

#blue

blue sky---
no empty spot on the beach
late August

#eat

Summer Olympics---
pandas have
plenty to eat

#dawn

dawn---street lined with
empty trash cans
full moon

#dawn

dawn---
street lined with copper trash cans
full moon

#sunset

sunset---
the barmaid bows
as I pass her

#sunrise

sunrise---
I stop viewing
the lilacs

#hot

hot August night---
she stands
staring out of her window

#blue

blue sky---
no milk left
for the kittens

#woods

hiking the woods---
their coolness sedates
late August

#sloth

Olympic gymnasts perform---
I watch
a sloth sleeping

#go

Starbucks---
where do Yuppies
go for coffee now?

#stillness

morning stillness---
during late August
downtown emptiness

#sunset

through a hole in the clouds
the sun sets---
August lightening

#dawn

dawn---
a crow stands
on a gasoline pump

#night

August late night---
at the bar
she wears shorts and smiles

#blue

blue sky---
I put the bedsheets
in laundry bin

#pool

August crowded pool---
no one wants
to play polo

#cheap

grocery store at rush hour---
looking what's cheap
tempers flare

#truffles

fancy French restaurant---
but where are
the truffles

#board

Summer thunderstorms---
a surfer puts his board
on his head

#race

bicycles race on top
Great Wall of China---
that beats the Alps

#moon

August dusk---
pregnant woman takes a dip
a half moon

#Park

August Madison Square Park---
they all look like
Paris Hilton

#blue

August blue sky---
a Chinese dragon
fuming

#gossip

Starbucks Summer---
young Egyptian housewives
gossip

#cloudy

August cloudy skies---
who cares remnants
of which hurricane

#sunset

August sunset---
the eggplants have
in their soil baked

#mosquito

running after a bus---
mosquito in my way
August sun

#why

Hiroshima Day---
I still want
to know why

#chamber

Santa Fe---
chamber music swoons
August cactus stings

#price

a real estate broker
says its price now is---
whatever

#dawn

August dawn---
old man washes his feet
with garden hose

#cat

August fruit stand---
their cat
is well fed

#clouds

Summer clouds---
the snows of Kilimanjaro
are whiter

#blue

blue sky---
a jellyfish swims upwards
August

#heat

August heat---as they pass
her new boyfriend
tries to act cool

#anthrax

the man who
killed with anthrax---
killed himself with Tylenol

#blue

blue sky---
I look for place to hide
my diary from her

#taste

Summer barbecue---
it's the beer
that makes it taste good

#dawn

dawn---
a Coca- Cola sign
turns off

#backdoor

morning flower bulbs
at the backdoor---
who needs this kind of intrusion

#lilacs

morning haze---
she asks
who picked our lilacs

#cross

evening rush---
squirrel wants cross sidewalk
July

#golf

morning train---
he hauls his golf clubs
late July

#more

more Summer
economic misery---
I reread Marx

#sunset

Summer sunset---
she comes
too soon

#haze

Summer haze---
she wears
a beige bikini

#coffee

morning---
smell coffee from house
of difficult neighbor