SKATEPARK

Thick air lends gravity a shape.

Bugs chew. Boys smack, skid, and glide.

When an arc is cut short, the motion continues to propel them.

The teenager bleached orange seems ambidextrous.

He reminds me of a boy I loved clean.

Nose tips up, tail follows. Kickflip flashes underbelly.

A trick is frustrated, perfected, then becomes the trick before the trick.

There is no shortcut to anything but a bruise.

Bracing means gunshot slap, not grace or liquid.

I dream the scene underwater.

Streetlamps glow like moldy lemons.

Some learning is about knowing when to abandon.

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