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The warm tail of summer comes whipping back
Each day
Burning melanin tattoos in varying shades of light

By twilight it settles
Quivering
Dreaming tomorrow’s torment

Still the heat exchangers go blasting hot air into the quiet vacancy of night

The ionosphere thins
Combines
Reshaping with the earth’s endless dark frequency

Highways buzz in thermal transfer
Bleeding sound forever outward
Pulsars of friction and rubber and asphalt
Pulling the sleepless from their dreamlessness
The great magnet of midnight gravity

Helicopters roar overhead
Flashing their false starlight
Tower beacons pulsate rhythmically
Warning them elsewhere
Dipoles undulate intangible dialogues
The world is never still

Heat explodes across sunlit horizons
The tail thrashes violently awake
The edges of time melt and drip
Nothing is ever still.

2019sm