PHOENIX, ARIZONA
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JULY 19
july the nineteenth
overnight low temp
of ninety-seven degrees
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OCTOBER 19
october nineteenth
one hundred and three degrees
climate change is hoax
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NOVEMBER 6
day before winter
ninety-three degrees
summer-autumn in phoenix
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NOVEMBER 8
dear gods of weather —
will it ever rain again
in bone-dry phoenix?
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NOVEMBER 14
now a week into winter
high: eighty-eight F degrees
that’s not fahrenheit
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NOVEMBER 18
i begged & pleaded
for rain but now bemoaning
winter mosquitoes
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DECEMBER 6
really, december:
high of eighty-two degrees?
oh no you didn’t!
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DECEMBER 21
on midwinter day
seventy-seven degrees
a sunburned solstice
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