{"id":1787,"date":"2023-03-21T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T16:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterschireson.com\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2023-03-21T13:34:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T17:34:37","slug":"in-which-i-consider-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterschireson.com\/in-which-i-consider-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I Consider the Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A New York friend says<br>we have no real seasons in the Coachella Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Untrue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come fall, the death of summer, and we feel like feathers.<br>Birds prance like runway models on the telephone wires,<br>leaves toss in the twilight wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter keeps us cool\u2014<br>the last of the fall leaves look up from under the trees<br>as if on the verge of speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Spring, freckles of peppery warmth,<br>a wonderment in the blood,<br>nerves purr, and the abyss holds off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then Summer\u2014early mornings, the air still benign, bright,<br>even clarifying.<br>But by eleven, images begin to dissolve\u2014<br>a dog crosses the street, a crow lands on the fence\u2014<br>a succession of blurry moments,<br>mopped up, one by one, by the burgeoning heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across the street, two doves park in a palm<br>above a pink couple from Minnesota<br>on their third poolside margarita,<br>committing slow suicide by sunburn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To walk outside is to wobble between reverence, collapse,<br>and a kind of puzzlement: Can it really be this hot?<br>Why, for the love of God, are we living here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We try not to think about it.<br>We try to regroup\u2014<br>we swim, we air-condition,<br>we cocktail, we reconstitute,<br>but the vast, untractable heat has pinned us down,<br>songbirds shuttered, sidewalks barren, car-less streets.<br>A hummingbird hovers over the bougainvillea<br>as if to paraphrase the simmering silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At eleven, the shiny woman on Channel Seven proclaims,<br>Tomorrow\u2019s expected high: One hundred-twelve,<br>and the expectation of blistering heat forms<br>into a noose around the neck of another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:140px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York friend says<br \/>\nwe have no real seasons in the <br \/>Coachella Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Untrue.<\/p>\n<p>Come fall, the death of summer, and we feel like feathers.<br \/>\nBirds prance like runway models on the telephone wires,<br \/>\nleaves toss in the twilight wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In which I Consider the Weather - Peter Schireson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/peterschireson.com\/in-which-i-consider-the-weather\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In which I Consider the Weather - Peter Schireson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A New York friend says we have no real seasons in the Coachella Valley. 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