There are halos around the new moon that shine like beacons in the enveloping darkness. Multitudes of timezones lapse under the utter quake of the tense hemispheres under siege at the equator, only to avoid all this heat.
It’s killing us, says the rose and the dragonflies bicker on only wishing for a branch with dew for a sip of cool, cool water.
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