Afternoons in April
look much like September
without the benefit
of all the local color
Potato salad sunshine burning
up the sudsy snow
still clinging to the ditches
and the fields like piles of mold
A sturdy wind chafes the chaff
that will soon be mowed
down and cleared
to make way for empty condos
They'll drain the ponds
and cut it up for buyers
who will evict the ducks
to install deep fat fryers
and serve up hamburgers
to put more pressure on tires
on the vehicles more
war machine than wagon.
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