exhaust
Each car streams the heat from its exhaust pipe across my shins.
frangible
Time crumbles away in sweat, sleeplessness, and apathy.
heatwave
The air presses down like an iron, smoothing my clothes flat onto my skin.
kinetic
She makes her day sound exciting, each detail a delight, and something new to learn at every ordinary place she visits.
leadlight
The leaves look like pieces of green stained glass. It's reassuring to see that even when the heat is brutal and they're scorched, they can still endure beautifully.
nitpicky
He argues into his cell phone, loudly and unselfconsciously, about the precise number of tissues he used the night before to blow his nose.
pillbug
There's a little cell inside me, accessed by a hatch, and sometimes I disappear into it, curling up like a pillbug.
