the beating heart of summer slows in torpid heat of weeks with no rain— a searing sirocco melts the sun, vanishing in lakebed molten wildfire haze, orange torn by too red-hot— one glance brands its floating shape into the retina, wavers a frantic dance behind the lid for hours, calms only when dust unites with earth again in wet veils enclosing afternoon with evening showers, skittering monsoons that patter, falter, stop and start
Rachel White is the author of a poetry chapbook, The Velvet Earth After Rain (Moon in the Rye Press, 2024), selected as a “Notable Read” by the Utah Humanities Book Awards. She co-founded and edits THE NOMAD Literary Journal, the-nomad.org. Her poems have appeared in Sugar House Review, Deseret Magazine, Dark Mountain, The Ecological Citizen, and elsewhere. Rachel grew up in Ogden, Utah and lives in Davis County. rachelwhitepoetry.org
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