The water falls fast
while most of the strange people
are safely sequestered
in their silent homes
to wait out
this severe thunderstorm.

Strangers make their way
as the storm fades
out into the early day.

Tank tops are wet,
less with sweat,
and more with
the warm
summer storm
bath.

This humid summer heat
Is a like a sauna

Dark green leaves
move softly
with a cooling breeze
while pointing in
so many direction
and awaiting new
chlorophyll dreams.

Like long ago lullabies
those thick limbs
come tumbling down
and sinking in
the soft brown ground.

A minor mud slide
makes black sludge overlap
onto the grey cracked cement
leaving black tracks
when bikes cycle through.

The church black top
is finally down to
its last two
wet spots.

A sunken roof
with white chipped paint
makes the yellow house
look like it in
a lot of pain.