The sun, a white-hot disc
of incandescent flame
sends its fiery fingers
probing every surface on this
Earth to bake to a fine degree
in the absence of companion wind
tempting forests themselves
to burst into scorching fires
as drought and heat dry
prairie crops shrivelling to nothing
fodder now for insects
marauding fields in a craze of
heat-induced madness while
animals creep toward scant shade
denied on mountain slopes where
alpine growth festers and dries
as the life-affirming properties of
the sun withdraw and simmer.
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