Monday, August 9, 2010

Thick August Air

Two men cut the overgrown, summer grass along the sidewalk
wearing long sweatpants and hard hats in the heat.
They spray blades against the white pavement
that clump and perfume the humidity with August smells.

It's the same air as that which rises out of newly lined practice fields
where I smell running in cleats, two-a-days,
and sweet icy water.

The grass season is ending as the sidewalk clippings brown
and although Fall brings the perfume of dry leaf-covered ground
and woodsmoke is chimneyed into the Winter air,
the summer air will thin, and lose the grassy smell of tryouts,
high school fields, and pre-season miles.

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