June 21, North 2nd Street. Dusk

Starless luminous air obscure …

…trees blackly sign invisible

wind in silhouettes power lines church steeples couple

copulating in 3^rd floor bedroom

Comcast gives

square-pants finger to the city

McDonalds speaks Spanish on bill boards

We are the Oxen on Oxford – the dead animals

eaten – smoke and wine

for consolation, hum of fans, beer cans clatter underfoot

lone cyclist rounds the corner

we grow things here

dreams, psychotic fantasies

basil

tomatoes

eggplant

pepper

in steel lockers laid

horizontal on the roof

to the east, black smoke stacks, water towers

lighted windows

& the first visible star of summer