Summer Heat

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the summer heat forces you to
repeal the layers used to protect and
return to that state in which you were born
sheetless, coverless, naked forms

outside the sky is grey and worn
as summer heat descends on early days
and drives the creatures back into their graves
sent scattering from sudden storms

against the broiling, rolling waves
the glittering crests of ships dipping and
form amidst the summer heat, a pink sky
recalls all beings to shallow swarms

from within blares the hollow sigh
of speakers, drumming meant to drown out the
world outside as two become one but in
vain - none escape the summer heat

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