Greetings from the Heat Dome

[TranquillityBase]

I have had many summers without air conditioning, and can relate.

I like the second half a lot, the imagery is solid and I like the idea of someone in sweltering heat daydreaming about someone in frigid cold who is able to make the cold pleasant with their man made heat. In the daydream, the heat is pleasant - which is interesting.

This is probably before your time, but there was an old Twilight Zone episode where the world is burning up, everyone is slowly dying from the heat.  The clincher is that the main character wakes from a fever to find that actually the world is turning into an icy apocalypse.  Didnt hav it in mind at the time I wrote this, but it's sort of what I had in mind after the fact.

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Wow! What a poem. Love the title, the ending, how it melds into a dream, how it reads aloud, everything. Thanks for sharing.

AR

Thanks!  It was meant to be merely fun, but turned somewhat serious in the end.

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Hey,
The intimacy of the last two stanzas really drew me in. Great read.
bryn

Thanks Bryn.  Yes, as is often the case, those first lines ultimately guided me to something more substantial.