Tagged: heat
on the fifth day of
on the fifth day of
summer, we are sitting still
in ninety-degree
weather, waiting and hoping
that the heat never finds us
.
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we are down by the
we are down by the
river, taking our cue from
the great blue heron,
fishing for a breeze in this
record warmth of october
.
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the first december
the first december
in the new old home, we have
become privy to
the twilight dialogues between
the heat pipes crossing households
.
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summer’s end hangs on
summer’s end hangs on
to the coattails of autumn,
dragging with it such
insufferable heat, causing
insomnia in its wake
.
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after more heat, we
after more heat, we
might cave a little, maybe
harden – there is no
clear prediction to how we
might turn out, reverberate
.
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the holidays can
the holidays can
stretch like dough, but not without
some tender prompting
.
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on green lake, for a
on green lake, for a
moment, we are held by the
summer heat and our
engine sputtering a call-
and-response to the ripples
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: sputtering
in the matrix, we
in the matrix, we
measure time in spoonfuls of
summertime – outside,
we drill holes into the snowbanks
to recover a bit of heat
.
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at the height of things,
departures are slow
departures are slow
releases –
even with a
steady hand on the
valve, it takes
heart to control
the flow
.
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