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.