Some Like it Hot…Not
Last Sunday, while putting the Museletter together, the monthly local publication that I co-edit, I was looking through my collection of poetry for a few summer-time poems to fill in some empty spaces. Except for a few garden poems, all I could find is the one below, published last year in “Mobius,” which made me realize that I don’t write much poetry in the summer. Does hot weather affect your creativity like it affects mine?
Summer Insects
High-pitched
crickets drone
like a phone off the hook
Waking from a dream, I ask:
“Won’t somebody please
hang it up?”
July 6th, 2005 12:55 pm
I’ve never thought about it until now. But i’m sure you are right. My ability to write or “think” weakens in the summer.. Must be the heat… The Awful 100 degree heat.
Good day!
Ivy
July 6th, 2005 2:10 pm
Nice poem–we live in a new development, and every time I hear the hammering while napping I think someone is pounding on my door. Know what you mean about summer–I’ve got a list of creative projects a mile long and all I want to do is read read read. Not that I don’t do that in winter too, but somehow it’s easier to get to work in winter.
July 6th, 2005 4:00 pm
Hmm. I had to go look at my bits and pieces to confirm it, but with the exception of my regular journalling, I seem to lie fallow in summer. My best times are fall/winter. I get energized by the rain and fast-falling dark, and do some of my best work while brewing a fresh pot of soup…
July 6th, 2005 4:27 pm
Well, I’m coming off of a five year long writing dry-spell, but I seem to remember writing a lot of stuff in summers past. The character of the stuff I write in the summer is different, though. I refer to my summer poems as “throwaways,” not because I actually throw them away but because my pattern is to write them, bury them someplace, and then fix them in the fall. Sort of a reverse hibernation.
July 6th, 2005 4:47 pm
Hi Colleen-
I tend to write more in the summer than I do in the spring, but yes, even more in fall and winter.
BTW, it’s affect, not effect, in that context. Can’t help myself…I’m workshopping your blog!
~Mara
July 6th, 2005 7:15 pm
I had “affect” and then changed it after the second one…ooh boy…I’m going to take your word for it and change it! I write mostly in the spring and fall.