When you’re not melting into the sidewalk,
You’re burning in the sunlight.
Cooking savory eggs and bacon on the sidewalk
While the cookies bake on the dashboard.
Ninety-six degrees in the shade,
Feels like ice compared to the summer sun
While heavy rains sting the face,
Like a shower of warm needles.
Petrichor fills the nostrils,
And brings a promise of rain,
While mountains hold back,
Dark rain-dense clouds.
Cicadas scream in the rows of mesquite trees,
Signaling the coming of another dry summer.
Haboobs walling off the horizon,
And clouding the city and the suburbs.
A city shrouded in the darkness of the dirt,
While it bakes in the scorching sunlight.
Innocent patrons fighting for survival,
In the burning oven that they all call home.
About the Creator
Gunnar Anderson
I am a young aspiring novelist with an arts degree in English Creative Writing with a focus in both fiction and poetry from Arizona State University where I made the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's List upon my 2020 graduation.
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