(better)

The boisterous
conversations
of children
in the park,
“Who’s better,
who’s better.
Gina likes boys,
Gina likes boys.
Who’s funnier,
you have to
choose.”
Red caps,
yellow t-shirts,
canopies in primary
colors,
the thump of the
soccer ball,
incongruous with
the Sandia Mountains
hunching their way
across the morning sky
so colorless
it seems to have
evaporated.

6/12/00