the heat and humidity
the day oppressed by the sun
the night sky is overcrowded
the pitted moon superfluous
i’d rather be cool
a blue lotus, floating
on a shimmering pond
a soulful thing,
solitary by day, and
in the cool night
eyes relieved of
the unremitting sun
© 2015, poem and photograph, Jamie Dedes, All right reserved
no rain that summer
no clouds for the sun to part like veils
the stoney bed of the creek so dry,
we walked on it, finding the tiny skeletons
of wild things – a deer mouse, a fish head
a heat deranged cat visited, brown and scraggy,
beaming her anger from yellow eyes,
her maw quirky and dry
her tongue gone mad
© 2013, poem , Jamie Dedes, All rights reserved; Photo courtesy of morgueFile
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