Schools are empty and the Legislature is quiet – at least for another month. Temperatures are heating up across the state. All of this is to say that summer is finally here, the inspiration for this week’s poem.
Come and Gone
elbow room, elbow room
with the students gone
and the Lege out of session
we’ve finally got some
which is a good thing too
because the sweating times are here
all over
even on our elbows
how can it still be so hot
when all that hot air
just left town?
i guess it’s just the politicians
and academics
leaving us something
to remember them by
like empty buildings
full of ghosts
made of heat
Produced by Laura Rice.
