basting we wilt

summer’s cooked (haiku tercets)

summer receding
the dragonflies flit away
from your outstretched hands

the crows are louder
their murders more numerous
they blacken the sky

broiling and basting
we wilt under the heatdome
summer’s cooked away

What I’m Reading:

While somewhere outside her window,
the crooked pine tree
hatches her an anvil

— Therese Estacion / “EF I”

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About istsfor manity

i'm a truncated word-person looking for an assemblage of extracted teeth in a tent full of mosquitoes (and currently writing a novel without writing a novel word) and pulling nothing but the difficult out of the top hat while the bunny munches grass in the hallway. you might say: i’m thee asynchronous voice over in search of a film....
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