circled by night breezes
stirring thick heated chants
of katydids and crickets
telling and retelling cycles in grasshopper rasps
of summer already shortening
but my skin does not believe in winter yet
when heat lightning is a tease
that does not bring rain
only longing for it
with each flicker
across clear skies
rivaling starlight for a moment
my bones are twigs snapping
my hair braided grass
everything I am
stretching deep for water
Susan Daniels Poetry 
my bones are twigs snapping
my hair braided grass…oh i like that much…summer over here has not yet started really…way too cool and wet so far…so i’m kinda desperate when i think how much of it is already over..
thanks so much Claudia. We don’t get droughts usually in the Northeastern US, but we are drying and baking… Know what you mean about cool, wet summers–we usually have our share of those!
For a cooling shower right now… even in my blurry eyed sleepiness, your words make me smile.
🙂 heading there right now…
Very dimensional in its imagery~ a joy to read!
Thanks, Deb!
Finally the rains have come. The humidity has left. Our cool northern climate has returned for a spell. Oh, thank God. Hope you get relief in both. 😉
Well, we had that lovely rain a day or so ago, but need so much more. I would sacrifice a virgin or whatever else is required, but we seem to be fresh out of those in my town, amongst the over 13 crowd…
Oh…boy. Now THAT’S a drought to worry over. Hmmmm..
LOL, nothing else to do here, apparently. I am SO moving my girl to the mountains in 6 months…
don’t blame you! 🙂
LOL!
“stretching deep for water.”
I love that verse.
Thank you, Jeremy. Just had a friend call me and say her well is dry. I might have to stretch really, really deep.
I hear you.
Out this way we’re in a similar predicament: almost no rain and lots of heat.
I keep wondering if something is disappearing. . . the summer came so early this year and the three previous seasons seemed so small that I fear that I am either going to remain thirsty or have to alter my thirst.
So very well said, Jeremy. Who would expect that, north as we are, and so close to the Great Lakes? Of course, global warming is a myth created by radical environmentalist scientists (better stop there). My sympathies to the center of NA, really. Apparently, all of our rain is in Europe, and they would be glad to send it here, if they could.
I’ve heard Europe has been stealing our rain. Just like them too, those socialist/commies! It must be part of that darned soul-sucking welfare state of theirs that reinforces their class system. Snobs!
LOL!!!!!!
I wish I could say that I’m serious but I think you know better.
🙂
So passionately intertwined with nature
Thank you, yes again.