1. Garden Avenue Driveway
They pulled up at 7:00 with spades, trowels and hoses
and a spinning truck full of concrete soup.
Then as precisely as an olympic fencing team
six men with well toughened and tanned biceps
drove the liquid rock down the chute
and into the the “two by” forms.
Then with rhythm as fluid as a corps de ballet
they poured, smoothed, spread and coaxed the mix
in to a concrete lake as smooth as glass.
and the morning’s deed was finished.
They hosed down the chute and walks,
packed their tools and vanished by 9:00
leaving their concrete sheet cake
to bake in the hot Illinois sun.
Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 10:33 AM UTC
1. Garden Avenue Driveway
They pulled up at 7:00 with spades, trowels and hoses
and a spinning truck full of concrete soup.
Then as precisely as an olympic fencing team
six men with well toughened and tanned biceps
drove the liquid rock down the chute
and into the the “two by” forms.
Then with rhythm as fluid as a corps de ballet
they poured, smoothed, spread and coaxed the mix
in to a concrete lake as smooth as glass.
and the morning’s deed was finished.
They hosed down the chute and walks,
packed their tools and vanished by 9:00
leaving their concrete sheet cake
to bake in the hot Illinois sun.
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