a 1973 Ford station wagon
   with faux wood siding
 parked at Sprouse-Reitz
 it's a 102 in the shade
and the asphalt is melting
  we bike to East Avenue
and to the rad lab
 there's an olympic size pool
and you can buy Butterfingers
out on Mines Rd. seasonal grape pickers
live by the creek
 you can share your lunch with a boy who only speaks Spanish
we play sandlot baseball
pitcher's hand
 edge-u-cated heel
  we ride bikes with baseball gloves on the handle
at the pit after it rains
  there are pollywogs and
later frogs come up
one year it was thousands
thousands of frogs invaded the field
it was a massacre
 junior high boys
with giant rubber bands
killing tiny frogs