summer came quick
needing ventilation
I open the backroom window
"voila"
there's a whole other world back there
I know!, it's always there
but winter shutdown flips it off
into oblivion,
until that first insufferable day
when the window reopens
a whiff of lilacs
and...and... yes!... manure
( a horse boarded in the vacant lot
and an old lady 'cross the way)
the lilac is pungent
the manure,
Eh!, there's only one horse.
a backyard play-jungle
kids terrorizing other kids
LOUD
they must be having fun, I figure,
fun being proportional to noise
but, pit- pups go to bed early, so
night will give some relief
a whole different world to explore
in a single day
for tomorrow, the amusement will have
...vanished