sirens blaze like volcanoes
sounds of couples making love mingle with
the searing glow of lamplight shades
and return as fiery spheres of pleasure
darkness of city alleyways puncture peace
outside the dogs of summer yammer dis-chords
a distant bell, churches or delivery men sound off
heat drizzles, poured by the dregs on black-sphalt
the scrip scrape of skateboards collides with cock-Robin crooo crooo crooo
brown and bushy, looking to Southern skies, months to migration
in the farthest shadow, a light, and opposite, the moon
mimicking a man