Almost August's curtain call and it is 100+ degrees daily. My prompt in Underground Railroad (Jill Badonsky) for this week was to write as if summer were a person. Here is my "off the cuff" quickie:
If summer were a person, she would expose herself, wearing shorts even to the post office, Walmart, with an attitude of letting go.
Summer would take her bra off as soon as she comes into her home and keep it off, even when delicately watering the plants and the neighbor dude comes over to chat.
Summer would heed the water and electricity conservation warnings because she wants the air conditioning to keep operating for all.
Summer would mourn the plants that dried up.
Summer would take a sabbatical from the kitchen.
If summer were a person, she would spend more hours reading and less time fretting about the house, the unsold rv and climate change.
If summer were a person, she would make sure her fans were turning counter clockwise.
If summer were a person, daily siestas would be her mandatory mantra.
If summer were a person she would acknowledge her own individual voice of creativity just like fall, winter and spring so dauntlessly did before her.
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