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You can already feel

summer folding in on itself

maybe because you know what day of August it is or

 because of the hot, spent air or

 because all your calls go to voicemail or

 because you exhale or

 because of the stillness.

Sure,

you could go exuberantly to the lake

to laugh and splash

but even the bottom of the lake

--a reservoir, really--

would be so orange.