Lunchtime Walk

Intro: Phillips Medical – Summer, lunch time, walking the industrial parkway in 90+ degrees.

The first cicadas of the season trill through
occasional traffic lulls on the boulevard,
Walking through Liatris, Cat Tails, and
Periwinkle-blue Chicory, and
Queen Anne’s lace in the ditches.

As I stroll past manicured, dead brown lawns,
evidence of this year’s long dry spell,
symbolic of those same businesses gone belly-up;
with the promise of rain in the air…
a false promise… like so… many others!

–LE – 7/2008