Summer Returns (like Autumn Leaves)

Today is a cloudy day over philadelphia,
the fog covers the window as the moist air creeps.
Children awaken again watch the post boxes pass by -
inside woman cries out.

Thunderous bells highlight the lilacs
Dresses on bicycles fly by,
eyeing the perimeter like hawks,
reading like a prayer for life.

Sizable smiles line the bank
the muck from the river gone aflow
creates a shallow, slimy barrier
between a safe spot and a rock

so summer returns upon the half lit night
angels disguised as manikins return to roam the night

such were the memories of a twelvemonth;
of sun and sol, moon and luna
like an island