Fast and furious

Apollo’s gold Bugatti

banks chlorine blue sky 

 

asphalt, a stovetop, 

boils order to turbulence,

air rifts in ribbons

 

lawns, deep-fryer crisp,

once locust feast, now famine,

amber waste of grain

 

poolside barbecues

swim-suited shish ka barbies

rotate in the heat

 

collarbones glisten

sweat stipples bellies, arms, breasts

salt crusted temples

 

silk Bernini saints

cut from farinaceous clouds 

clot in curdled air

 

sunsets melt so fast

ice cream too, fireflies blink and

summer’s gone away