Whittled Wordlet 3: This heat, man.
HellooOooOooOOooOoo! It’s been a very, very odd week, mainly for personal reasons. Yesterday was nice, though - my husband and I headed to an aunt’s place for brunch, I had a last minute lesson and then we spent the night with my family laughing over random memories while making new ones.
Besides the roller-coaster of emotions we experienced this week, we also came down with a sore throat and I slept two days away amidst online lessons and THIS HEAT.
Please stay hydrated and please use sunscreen! (If you’re reading this and you happen to be my mother - Please use sunscreen, Amma. Please lahhhhhh.)
Also! A couple of you have pledged subscriptions and that means so very much! Thank you for your support. I am very grateful and will work on coming up with different things here for paid subscribers as well. Thank you, thank you!!
Original ver:
THIS HEAT, BRUV.
Wondering if I can do this entirely with rhetorical questions.
What can be said about the heat that hasn’t already been said? Should I say the sun is burning or blazing or broiling? Or should I focus on the boiling? Eyes closed and perfectly still, how do I feel its burn settling underneath my skin?
Hmm.
What can be said about the heat that hasn’t already been said? Should I say the sun is burning or blazing or broiling?
Or should I focus on the boiling?
Eyes closed and perfectly still, I feel the burn beneath my skin. Light floods each pore and swills and builds until I am, quite simply, afire.
hsaifhasiufdh. Except when you’re standing in this heat, you’re on fire but you’re also not. The heat has a way of getting under your skin and cooking you from within and from the outside, you might look perfectly fine - but inside, the heat is broiling and rolling and your insides, your organs, your thoughts, your emotions are all just cooking and cooking and maybe burning.
OHHH.
What can be said about the heat that hasn’t already been said? Should I say the sun is burning or blazing or boiling?
Or should I focus on the broiling?
This works a lot better, I think.
Final ver:
What can be said about the heat that hasn’t already been said?
Should I say the sun is
burning
or blazing
or boiling?
Or should I focus on the broiling?
Should I tell you that
even when my eyes are closed and
I am perfectly still,
it burns
beneath
my skin?
Or how the fire threads
and fills and swills
Through each pore,
Until I am
a flame?
Or how the heat robs!
And plunders!
How my thoughts melt!
And my organs meld!
How I am expelled from myself as I broil and boil and blaze and burn!
What can be said about the heat that hasn’t already been said?
What can be said about this heat that you don’t already know?
I’m not entirely satisfied but I’ve run out of timeeee. I’m editing a couple of short stories that I’m wondering if I want to submit somewhere and I also have some chapter summaries to dooooo. Poetry is not my strongest suit but I suppose the whole point of this Substack is for me to try and give it a go anyway. And so, once again, this is a win, yay. Do let me know what you think, though!
I really do hope the weather improves and the following weeks get slightly more bearable. Please take care and stay safe!
Thank you for being here!! :)