Tag Archives: Heat

Like liver and onions . . .

Posted on July 6, 2018 by peri, poet.

. . The heat is heavy today and all I can think as I plod along hard sidewalks under the overbearing sun is liver and onions. Liver and onions the one food I could not eat in my youth the … Continue reading →

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Sleep: summertime.

Posted on August 27, 2016 by peri, poet.

. Summer sits still on my skin – the damp of humid evening listless, I breathe in scent of cut lawn, rose garden, hydrangeas dried, berries forgotten, pause and lift my face to the sky – with effort, in this heat so high … Continue reading →

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Summer.

Posted on August 21, 2016 by peri, poet.

. How is your Summer? He asks,  just perfunctory I’m sure. But the lace curtains waft often enough in the warm breezes over scrub grass of lawns past, dry dust edging the sidewalks as when I was a child crouching over ants in … Continue reading →

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