Newly Mowed Lawn

Grass and weed cut down to an inch,
unable to conceal what lives in the soil.
Ants and sow bugs dither
like compass points in a storm,
unable to find their trails.
It only lasts a day, as a cut
for regulation ought.
Soon an awkward blade rises,
then another, then a throng,
resembling kids in high school
as they flip their hair
to clear their faces, or not,
as they are prone to do.