gold blooded

The shade is hot
arms and legs circulating
viscous red globes
through a classic stirling cycle
slivers of cold streaming
blood descending a
shiver down the spine
escalator to be superheated in an arm
corridored veins laid in the sun,
skin browning become radiatively efficient
on cue, almost as if silver
almost as it was made to be on
a turtle or a wedge of lemon tree