Fwd: “Extreme Heat Advice – Department of Health – New York State”

Know the signs of heat-related illness 

one day, it’ll be so hot
all the insects in the neighborhood
will goey up into a
crackling molasses of wings 

Check your local weather so you can be prepared. 

shredded up into their own iridescence
welding splintered thorax
to antennae crisped and boiled
into a humid lump of feeling 

Find a place to get cool. 

how that deathly caramel
will slide onto the crackling streets
how those bodies of liquified pollen
will still smell so sweet

Eleonor Botoman is a critic and poet based in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing has appeared in C Magazine, Artforum, Dream Pop Journal, Sunlight Press, BUST Magazine, The Mantle, and more. A former sketchbook librarian, she now studies in NYU’s Experimental Humanities program. When she’s not reading science fiction or visiting museums, she’s working on her newsletter, Screenshot Reliquary.