TheBanyanTree: on the hottest day

[Pam Lawley]

Finally!!  Something positive from the heat!!  :)

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Julie Anna Teague <jateague at indiana.edu>wrote:

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> Off-year cicadas chrrriii chrrriii in rounds,
> a few hoarse crows maybe,
> flies buzzing,
> hot car tires gumming over melted asphalt pothole patches,
> and that's it,
> that's all you hear on an afternoon like this one.
> Not a limp leaf brushes another,
> not a dropped greasy sweet wrapper blows down the street,
> nor a single lost love note
> loosed from it's grip under a windshield wiper.
> It's too hot for love.
> Everything sticks to something else
> but it's not love.
> Everything waits
> with hot held breath
> for a breeze.
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