Thursday, June 8, 2017

Heat


HEAT

The hot days are 
here
again

Friends are canceling
sitting in stiflingly-HOT
art fair booths
while waiting for 
customers
who want only to 
go
to the lake

Our
 gardens
 are finally taking shape
But will be looked after carefully
 these next days
so the plants
will stay watered
enough
to not
droop
and/or
die

I will fill the birdbaths
so birds 
and
squirrels
may 
sip or splash

We've forgotten 
about
our
old friend
Winter
so recently
gone

And Spring...
Remember Spring?
No?
 Me, neither.

Maybe tomorrow
we will muscle in
The Air Conditioner
and life and work
will return to normal

For now
I give thanks 
for the 
inventors
of portable fans
and ceiling fans

I am a fan of fans

Till it is once again
time to turn off
the fans and put away
the air conditioner

and turn
The Heat
back on

________________________________


Fare-thee-well,
Sue

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