Boots Away!
Boots awayinto the silence
of summer! Euphoric
and limitless, singing
loud the culmination
of all that has preceded it,
all that was necessary
for such lush
and brilliant living.
Never a shoe we wore,
not for a length of moment,
just rivers of grass
and toes of tunes
and mouths just
gathering time.
In that kind of everlasting
which passes so quickly,
the dogs hours and childhoods
that last for a season
in a season like this one-
the park could finally hear itself-
The leaves relinquishing
all mortal thoughts,
surrendering to their purpose-
the wind making belief out of air