TheBanyanTree: on the hottest day

[Julie Anna Teague]

Quoting Pam Lawley <pamj.lawley at gmail.com>:

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

She refers, I believe, to my constant off-list whining about the heat, 
the heat, the heat.  I'm a runner and a gardener and neither running 
nor gardening are going well in this blasted sauna we call Indiana.


> 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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