April 21, 2016

Country Song.


We started running again when we realized
we'd forgotten the way our sweat smelled: grassy and
sweet,
like the front yard and side field
on an August day.
90 degrees but your weather app might as well read
feels like fucking hell.

All of us stuck down here,
running our lawn mowers over dead animals,
pulling on our knee-highs to wade through the swamp,
timing it so our feet squash the cattails right when the sun splatters our faces.
freckled
like tics on a horse hide,
freckled
like honeysuckle on the highway.