It’s a time of peppers and basil and zinnias here, the rain departing and the heat arriving as we always knew it would. I didn’t expect to add another Grace Paley to the box so soon, but her matter-of-fact voice seemed right for this moment. In only days the leaves of the vegetables will start to crisp and the electric utilities will tell us to back off the a/c because the system can’t handle it.
“I had another day in mind
something like this one”
