Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUGUST, by MUNA LEE


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First Line: Day after day the treeless street was baked
Last Line: Upon cool freshness of the cress-like phrases.
Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee
Subject(s): August


Day after day the treeless street was baked
By intolerable sun. The moulded wagon-tracks
Were rayed and rifted by the widening cracks.
Through wavering blurs of heat and red bricks ached.
Drouth made the plain stretch flatter and more wide.
There was no dew in August, there was no shade.
Upon the lake the Commercial Club had made
Hundreds of dead fish floated on their side.

Walking the sweltering street, "wet leaves," one said.
"Rainy leaves," "drenched leaves" -- oh words like rillets stealing
Amongst the tortured brain's heat-tangled mazes
"Drenched leaves," "wet leaves" -- savoring the words of healing
For crisp forgetful moments the spirit fed
Upon cool freshness of the cress-like phrases.





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