Friday, July 6, 2012

Oasis

The weather forecasters say it will be cooler next week.  I*ll believe it when I feel it.  Hopeful friends think that with all the power saved in the outage this week, we*ll be in for no brown-outs.  This is a desert year.  And... life still reaches for life, wherever oasis may be found.

Other summers
We have opened
The windows
For breeze
And cool night air.
Not this year.
This is the desert year.
Heat in the day,
Heat at night.
This year the backyard raccoon
Bites and scratches holes
In the backdoor screen.
He hopes to get in
To the cool,
Drives the cat
Absolutely
Mad.
This is the desert year.
The tree by the upstairs bedroom window
Wears a hole in the screen.
It too hopes
To grow inside
Into the cool.
This is the desert year.
Everything seeks
Oasis.

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