“Summer Break”

by Ja'Cinta Fed & Jessica Ray

An old-girt face rendering hard-eyed expressions with a skimpy slit

mouth axes of her pupils peeking from the powdery gray dirt. Sage

gullies, still white castle of ants showering yellow on bundles of

tobacco in hot still air ice chunks melt the sweet strong tea from a

gurgling jug. A quickening dust a far-off rumble, shattering glass

ammunition blast bounces hollow off the walls. The whine of

mosquitoes and croaking, of frogs at. the river, .A bright almond face

with green eyes peeps through the green of the woods. Sun glints

across a beaten tin-roof, A magnolia dull gold withered by the

wavering heat. Stretch of yard prickly pears, locusts eclipsing greets

Spanish moss dangles like wind-tattered smoke. Two quiet girls, a

boneless bosom of softness clip in the river bank with a shrill singing

voice hoping school starts soon.