summer sighs

Summer's here..to have the last laugh in this land of black soil and brown skin..to set the terms for the rest of the year..with one clean sweep, winter's lifted off the canvas..and you are welcome to broad, white, blinding light..after a dream of winter, you wake up to summer..one more, endless patient summer..boring thorny heat into your skin, etching shaded patterns on your feet, tossing them in the ruthless anarchy of dust till you ingrain sensations of the sun in your soul..till something inside you becomes permanently parched..till you feel the dryness seeping in..till you're pushed beyond wanting..one big lesson in endurance.,and you can't bunk it.