the kind of heat
when the slightest breeze
feels cooler than the last
might be the imagination
rumble in the distance
sounded as real as the sweat
running down forehead
onto the page below
the boy uses a sprinkler
under a trampoline
to cool down
flipping over and over
and then he will tire
lasts about fifteen minutes
the kind of heat they call oppressive
the humidity makes it hard to breathe
still it makes every breeze appreciated
and anticipated like tonight’s rain
as if the first in days
which it is how many hot ones
before the cooler air
comes back around…
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