A summer photo –

cousins in a chair.

Boys with poking elbows,

summer faces alight with fierce delight.

One can nearly smell the boy funk radiating from

the chortling, belching, farting swirl that

is the giddiness of planned pranks,

campfire smoke woven through their clothes,

the odor of fish upon their hands…

the ultimate silence

when they collapse into dreamless sleep,

over done by the sticky summer day.