I work on the third floor of an old, brick building, very quaint and usually quite beautiful. However, it is anything but comfortable by most standards. It is hot in the summer and cold in the winter, and that's even when we have our individual heat/AC units running.
We have had no AC since the weekend, and it is officially an oven here. You know what they say about heat rising? My ability to work is melting with every degree the temperature rises. However, I have two classes this evening and must press on. I'm listening to Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas and trying to think "cool" thoughts. How do you beat the heat? That's what I think we should write about. Leave me a note about your poem and I'll post the results here later this week.
We have had no AC since the weekend, and it is officially an oven here. You know what they say about heat rising? My ability to work is melting with every degree the temperature rises. However, I have two classes this evening and must press on. I'm listening to Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas and trying to think "cool" thoughts. How do you beat the heat? That's what I think we should write about. Leave me a note about your poem and I'll post the results here later this week.
Good luck with that AC problem. I fear I'm awful at dealing with the heat.
ReplyDeleteYou might enjoy this AC-related limerick I wrote last year:
Hot Limerick.
My five-year-old daughter and I wrote this poem together based on one of her drawings.
ReplyDeleteELEPHANT’S OASIS
By Steven and Marin Withrow
One morning on his way to school
The elephant stopped for a shower.
He dipped his trunk into a pool
And siphoned up with sucking power
Liquid through the tubelike tool
His nose became that scorching hour
Sun shone slant—a cruel jewel—
Then held aloft his water tower
And drenched his bulk in drops of cool
Refreshment, like a nourished flower.
©2011 Steven Withrow, all rights reserved
a tanka
ReplyDeletewrists thrust under
a cold running faucet
sweat drips
into eyes always looking
forward to the next season
Recipe for Cool
ReplyDeleteHere's a recipe for cool.
1. Dip body into pool
Haven't got a pool, you say?
Move to Scotland, no delay.
2. Ice cream can be a treat
Lactose you are loathe to eat?
Scotland then, don't miss a beat.
3. Air conditioner on the fritz?
Bits of water now it spits?
Come to Scotland, no delay.
We had summer yesterday.
Jane
Hahahah! Um, yes. I second Our Lady Jane's comments. We had exactly ONE DAY of summer so far, on Friday. It's forty-eight degrees, as I speak. Ugh, Tricia, I surely hope they fix your AC promptly!
ReplyDeleteIce Cream Cone
ReplyDeleteChocolate,
vanilla,
chocolate chip,
run through the sun
with a drip, drip, drip!
Strawberry,
bubble gum,
peppermint stick,
run through the sun
with a lick, lick, lick!
Neapolitan,
butterscotch,
caramel gold,
run through the sun
with a mouthful of cold!
--Kate Coombs, 2011, all rights reserved
How to Beat the Heat?
ReplyDeleteTube it -
tied together
floating down the river.
Cube it -
lemonade
with ice and shivers.
Popsicle it -
guaranteed
to keep you cool.
Cannonball it -
off the high board
at the City Pool.
Sorry I'm late, but wrote a memoir-type poem. You can find it at http://teacherdance.blogspot.com/2011/06/keeping-cool-at-grandmas.html
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