SO HOT FOR SO LONG

Grandson Billy wetting down the oaks before burning the massive brush pile earlier this year

A few poems for the dry and hot season the nation is currently in.

so hot for so long

the beautyberry leaves

curl and brown

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electric meter's

unending circle's

this summer

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mid-summer heat

dairy cattle udder deep

in the stock pond

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hellphase of summer

incandescent skies

forcing me indoors

(from Arkansas Times)

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Weather

determines my

day's schedule in some ways:

No rain? I water the plants; too

much sun?

I move

out of the swing

to the shade. Too hot? I

retreat inside to the AC's

comfort.

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c 2012 by Pat Laster dba lovepat press