Heat-wave (Revamped repost)

 Iced Tea, anyone?

Whispered breeze faints in mute, midday heat

Ceasing to strum flaxen spires of wheat

Dubious zephyr slips under the vines

Hazy hush silvers dim,distant skylines

We gather beneath the tall walnut tree

Where leaf-lace heights pool, cool, languidly

The flag droops, dormant like wilted dreams

The heat rolls, steady in rippling streams

As ditches spill over, not of sudden shower

But rain-bow river of wandering wild-flower

Too soon howling gales will shiver our cot
Too soon July pales kissing tender-sweet thought

Too soon its flush fades; a glimmering sigh

In faint whiff of sage and burnished good-bye

Stiff orderlies of Old Man Winter a-wait

Beyond green pond and pale-blue cloud gate

While now children dash in bare-foot revelry

Soon they will splash through childhood memory

Simmering sky-lines spawn thirst for relief

Shimmering corn-rows expand gleaming sheaf

The sun seeks its throne in the azure of noon

Cicada-choirs drone a listless, low tune

Where Dog lays flat in stunted north-side shade

As does the cat; we sip iced-lemonade

Absorbing flavors heady with summer-lust

Salty sea-song medley, ambiance of dust

Mellow malted nectar of middle-July
Cadence of summer slipping up to the sky
For too soon Time turns its shimmering page
Melting its murmur from summer-sweet stage

Janet~

A year ago the weather was much the same. It is July, after all:) I'm off to pick the peas before it gets too hot!