Hell Hath much Fury

Hell Hath much Fury

it's a lackluster morning

the roses are wilting from the heat

birds are hiding in the shadows

unhungry as their feathers

soak from the sweat

the clouds are passing

so slowly, they are virtually

stalled by the humidity

dogs refuse to go for walks

even cats are uninterested

in looking out of their favorite windows

cars warm up before their engines turnover

black interiors suffocate 

drivers

I sit in the air conditioning

struggling to cool

reading a book of poetry

about Alaska

and wish I could fly

using these poems

as my vehicle.

erin-cilberto

8/15/25

Reviews

[Hallow]

I enjoyed the imagery. It feels the same down south.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, Hallow.
j.

[Green]

Well that perfectly summarizes the weather we've been having lately. It's been so hot, I've been running out of ways to describe it, but it's this.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, Green. Can't wait for fall and winter.
j.

[Arundass TP]

Excellent writing. Loved each line. Powerful it is.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, Sir...appreciate your words.
j.

[andrew mitchell]

Meanwhile 2 presidents jostle for supremacy . Scores East 1 West 0 whatever the weather in Alaska. Climate change went up 2 degrees in anger.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Yes, that is the score all right.
j.

[Lorry]

Well breaking news here too, from sunny Scotland???? (Yep, you heard that right! Clear blue skies and nor even a wisp of cloud in sight so that can absent mindedly hum the Simpson's tune.
And isn't it just buddy typical, we are driving home today from our mini world tour of Scotland today, after visiting flash floods, mudslides and storm force weather warnings.
Turns out that this was indeed the myth like week we oft heard about as kids where the sub used to shine so much that the pavements melted!
If I'd just stayed home I'd have saved such a lot of Grieg and would have more than my right arm tanned from hanging out the window. (We drive on the wrong side if the road here, remember?"
😆
Now I feel like making tiny kites from poetry pages and bots of thread, but can't , because that probably is illegal, or should be anyway! Maybe I'll just write a poem, tie some thread to it and fly it away instead! 😃

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Sounds like a good idea...and yes, "not the wrong side, just the other side." I drove in Trinidad...other side...what confused me were the roundabouts.

[John the Baptist]

We have had the same type of heat in Virginia. It is said that on such days, when dogs chase cats, they both walk.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I love it..."they both just walk"
j.

[Neha agrawal]

Woooow, this poem really makes me feel the heat , the kind of day where even the animals give up. I love how you painted such a heavy atmosphere and then contrasted it with your wish to escape through Alaska’s cool poetry. That last image of using poems as a vehicle is beautiful. It left me with a sense of both exhaustion and hope.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for your kind review, Neha.
j.

[Ted Kniffen]

Written by a poet who is obviously familiar with mid-west summers.

It's not the heat ... it's the humidity!!!

I recall those dog days of August when I was a kid and a fan in the window was the closest thing to air-conditioning we had.
Those days put the "stick" in sticky.

Thanks for the memory old friend.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Fans certainly don't help with humidity...
Sorry I brought back such stickiness...

[Stella Armour]

You can Jacob!
Just transport your mind ... "I am cool, the air is fresh and poetry takes me wherever i choose to go today."
Dreamers can fly with imaginative wings.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

even really old wings, Stella?

[Stella Armour]

Yes, even old wings like ours can fly into dreamland 😊.

[Davidgeo]

Got that heat dome fever I see.

It's been a little heated this summer in the midwest.

I don't know about Alaska though... that might be the greater of two evils. You might like Washington however, it's a strange place (the state not the capital which is also strange but for other reasons). Just watch out for folks from Oregon... there is some kind of rivalry going on there.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I guess I will stay in Illinois and just weather the weather. Maybe I have Cat Scratch Fever...I think my cat thinks so.
Thanks, David.
j.

[Davidgeo]

At least we aren't in Texas.