Simmering / by Brian Kunde

Simmering
by Brian Kunde

The campus being hot of late,
Its denizens have not felt great,
Reduced to such a sweaty state
By temperatures unseen
In many years, if seen at all,
And wish the mercury would fall
A little way back toward the ball
Where it of old had been.

The fog came in: the torture ceased,
Which had till recently increased.
It must have been five days, at least,
It lasted: oh, the pain!
Who would have thought, that after such
A soggy spring, with scarce a touch
Of sun, we soon would wish so much
To see it damp again?

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Simmering
(A Stanford Garland ; 7)

from A Stanford Garland and Other Verses, Sep. 2007.
An earlier version appeared in
SUL News Notes, Vol. 4, no. 26, Jun. 30, 1995, as “Stanford on the Simmer.”

1st web edition posted 12/20/1995.
2nd web edition posted 9/4/2007.
This page last updated 9/4/2007.