"My Street"

Lawndale Lawn-dale
Lawn green grassy verdant
Dale rolling open meadows
My Lawndale a desert street
Dirt at both ends
Hot black licorice
In the middle
Hightop Keds
Hanging from
Power lines
Where Football games
Dodgeball were
Co-dependent on passing
Cars who left
Exaust laden
Rainbow colored gutter
Water
Cool to the lips of
Young boys who dip
Their head like street
Dogs drinking
Slaking an innocent
Thirst
From green grassy lawndale
Run off
Drinking in our
Father's sin of
Hubris
Growing dales
And meadows
In Mojave
Desert
My lawndale street
Where my Hightops
Hung on the power line
Outside my window
Till they rotted
Off.

-Fin-

DS Baker