Yvonne

16

313 Degrees Kelvin

Make July hotter
until your scalp drinks cool water faster than
your mouth does,
and clinging icedust washes out of your pores,
and the metal in your bones, built up over autumn, melts and you fill to the brim with
historic greenness--

the steel will strengthen, slowly,
iron will settle like sediment, but now your feet are relearning the ground
and you will have an autumn to turn colors, a winter to freeze,
spring to lull your frozen blood back to blue--for now
linger boneless, part cloud
drifting by
the skyscrapers of cities tickling like grass beneath your back.