Saturday, June 27, 2015

Send Rain

I'm doing everything I can to keep my sweet peas alive, 88 degrees at 8pm tonight, and I seem to be losing. It's been pretty much more and more flowers every day; been picking as many as I have vases. I've even taken to putting a bouquet of them on the sidewalk with a sign that says "Take me home". It's my little patch of luxury — day after day purples, and reds, whites and pinks — and it has seemed that there was no end in sight, but. But.

Where is my June rain?
Feels like suffocation, and it's only going to get hotter.

I keep thinking of the Robert Frost poem, Fire and Ice:

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
 
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Seems we've made our choice.
 


5 comments:

  1. I believe I'm hear you on Whidbey Island and everyone is saying it's just unusually hot for June here. The flowers, though, are spectacular -- as is the sky. I'd love it to rain, though -- so selfishly -- as we haven'd had a proper one in Los Angeles for so long I'm almost forgetting what it's like.

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    1. I'm thinking of you, Elizabeth, in your little cabin across the water!

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  2. Stinking hot here in southern France. As for the end of the world, I've always imagined that disease would do the job.

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    1. You too, eh Cro? Maybe disease AND heat, on our way out.

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  3. 107 expected here today. Watered all the essential plants - we're letting the lawn die. Hoping for El Nino!

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