The longing for warmer weather and sunny days
falls somewhere between Winter rain
and Spring flowers beginning to petal
but it all has given way to a heat so heavy
that it settles upon her August nights
as though weighted a substantial burden
it permeates every living thing and even
insects take refuge long for cooling air
causing the synergy of habitats once again
for the fine line between longing and needing
takes her back to the petals of flowers and green
days with a cool breeze a paramour of the sun
© August 2017 Renee Espriu
This is in response to Jamie Dede’s Wednesday Prompt at https://jamiededes.com/2017/08/02/hot-august-nights-and-wednesday-writing-pompt where you can read more from other poets. The photo below was taken from Morgue File & digitally altered by myself.
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