Summer Snowstorm
A single coquettish snowflake
Languishes in and out of view
Teasing my parched, sandpaper tongue
That hungers to taste just a few.
Summer heat in muggy bayou
Where this snow is as rare a sight
As a gator in Alaska
Or the sun in darkest of night.
Still the flake torments me harder
Circling slowly toward the ground
And winking sunlit reflections
Meant both to tempt and to astound.
But the heat consumes my being
And as the grand flake fades away
My sweaty sheets and loud alarm
Mark the start of another day.
November 3, 2018
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