Posted 3:46 PM by hx

here is today's poem. come back winter, i can't stand this heat!! :)

this day
24-07-02 , 20:07:08

this day the heat was a
warm thickness on the skin,
so dense you would expect
to see things as through jelly.
instead it had a clarity
the angel city rarely does,
outlines stark and barely
shimmering,
the chrome on cars gleaming
fit to scar.
the latinos on their
front steps
popped sharply out like
3D paper dolls,
the color of their clothes
blinding.
even the pigeons
had difficulty flying.
the homeless folks lay
on their backs in the
shade of McDonald's,
and their dogs
panted in tandem.
on the telephone pole,
my mockingbird watched it
all,
and laughed his tail off.
this day it was easier
to remember that L.A.
was scooped from the desert,
its trees planted whole.