Tuesday, Jul 7, 2026
Theme

heat

Dry Creek Bed High Summer

Dry Creek Bed

–-This poem reflects on a dry creek bed in high summer, where absence, memory, and the shape of return remain even after…

6 Jul 2026 · 1 min read
Dog Days High Summer

Dog Days

–-This poem reflects on the heavy stillness of the dog days, when high summer presses everything toward rest, shade, and surrender to…

3 Jul 2026 · 1 min read
Sunburn Line High Summer

Sunburn Line

–-This poem reflects on a sunburn line as a small bodily record of high summer, where pleasure, labor, and exposure leave their…

1 Jul 2026 · 1 min read
Porch Fan at Midnight High Summer

Porch Fan at Midnight

–-This poem reflects on a porch fan at midnight as a small mercy in high summer, where motion and hum make the…

30 Jun 2026 · 1 min read
August Dust High Summer

August Dust

–-This poem reflects on August dust as a sign of high summer wearing toward its later days, where heat and dryness begin…

29 Jun 2026 · 1 min read
Hose Water Gone Warm High Summer

Hose Water Gone Warm

–This poem reflects on the strange intimacy of high summer heat, when even hose water meant for relief arrives already warmed by…

26 Jun 2026 · 1 min read
Wasps at the Fig Tree High Summer

Wasps at the Fig Tree

–-This poem reflects on the charged abundance of high summer, where ripeness draws both beauty and danger into the same shaded moment.…

25 Jun 2026 · 1 min read
Road Shimmer High Summer

Road Shimmer

–-This poem reflects on the shimmering heat above a summer road, where distance blurs and the season turns ordinary space into something…

24 Jun 2026 · 1 min read
Fan in the Window High Summer

Fan in the Window

–-This poem reflects on a fan in the window as a humble source of relief during high summer, where ordinary machinery becomes…

23 Jun 2026 · 1 min read
Sweat on the Back of the Neck High Summer

Sweat on the Back of the Neck

–-This poem reflects on the bodily truth of high summer labor, where heat and work leave their mark as part of the…

19 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

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