As a chill passes over my skin Standing the hairs Goosing the bumps A deep breath Wider eyes Warmth returns, fourth width Only a fly, landing adjacent to my elbow Returns the uncertainty of the temperate moment Juicing, peels, ripeness of the day Passive voice to match the delivery vehicle Blinking lights, without heat Is it ninety eight point six? Not nearly. Rather forty five degrees In some units An angle for slicing rights Awkwardly capitalized Lowering cases, inferior court To this place where the laws might be written But not very well The impulse to examine, trounced by the instinct to feel Easier than doing the left, right, course correction It's too hot and I'm a partisan of the cold! shout the self-oriented; board games are inhumane. Dried out, husks, with consciences unexamined: Why look closely when it's easy to be far away? Don't ask the weather people, they say thirty percent With a chance of acute, triangles sharpened It's not raining right now, but that ark won't build itself.