High summer. Can it
go any higher? Tree tops
birdless all after-
noon. Crickets waiting
for the cooling hour, sex and
death in the hedges.
We are in it to-
gether, man and woman, long
looks over iced tea,
unwilling, unab-
le to say the words of love
as the tide goes out.
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