Lit From Within

The sun intensifies.

It's yellow light

makes everything glow

as if lit from within.

Cicadas and crickets buzz and click

filling the air with their non-stop, jazzy tempo

and sweat trickles down the small of my back

with the smallest of movements

...or no movement at all.

Garden chores have to wait

as I sip drinks stacked full of ice cubes,

And watch everything around me grow

and ripen,

knowing that fall is but a step away.