Aabye's Baby
40° IN BÚZIOS
Heat
          trickles between my breasts in endless rivulets
          sings perverse notes in the wings of cicadas
          relentlessly envelops me in
A blanket of the hottest dust.
Scorching heat
          greedily saps my life energy
          forms a constant film of sweat on my body
          seeks to leave me as only a humid
          shell of the me I really am.

ELIZA GIBBONS
Eliza Gibbons Eliza Gibbons is a freelance translator and writer living in Denver, CO. She spent six years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, working in the finance area of a multinational company. She is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish. This poem first appeared under her maiden name Eliza Bonner. The Aabye's Baby Archive
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