Day 1: Take the first line of a well-known poem.

Shakespearean Heat

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

All red-faced-sweaty

too hot to be bothered

asking me to bring you another beer

as you lay on the couch where

Your skin will stick to the vinyl and will make

a tearing, sucking noise

when you finally

get up.

The ceiling fan stirs thick air

and the curtains, closed since breakfast, swallow

the house in half-darkness grief

[Curtains should only remain closed on a house where

there has been a death, or when it’s going

to be over forty degrees.]

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

You squint into the sun

setting pavers into the scraped, dry earth

a path to the washing line

unnecessary now

And crows feet are left as white markings on your tanned face

you call them ‘laughter lines’ but

wrinkles are wrinkles, age is age.

I get you your beer

and one for myself,

join you on the couch for the

midday movie.


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