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Thursday, July 22, 2021

At the Bus Stop

 

Heat

bounced off plexiglass shelter

softened old gum on the sidewalk 


Heat

hot breezes swirled gutter dust

metallic blue sky domed the city


Heat 

pushed sundresses and t-shirts into 

air-conditioned stores and restaurants


Heat

seductively wrapped around me,

draining me of energy as I waited.


“It was like riding into the blast of a hair-dryer set on hot.”

~ Colin Cotterill, Thirty-Three Teeth

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