Thursday, July 30, 2009

And Maybe the Globe, Itself, Is a Myth

I said, this reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode when global temps get so hot for so long that the remaining survivors all go mad. And I still retain the image of paint melting off of a canvas and a woman screaming with her hands on her face.

This also reminds me of days and days of snow. A heat trap. If I escape, I again find my refuge in the supermarket, in front of rows of white milk cartons. Let me fall to my knees and press my cheek to the tile.

My entire body weeps: I watch sweat form in tiny beads at every pore. I didn't know I could melt away, like snow.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

this is exactly how i feel when it gets hot. i have this secret fear that one day the earth will fall out of its orbit and get closer and closer to the sun until we all burn up or kill ourselves. morbid, i know. so glad it doesn't end that way.

M.L. said...

It doesn't even sound like complaining, Manda. It's beautiful.