The goldenrod along every ditch is standing up green and shut, holding its yellow, waiting for the nights to drop before it spends anything.

This is the deep hinge of the year — after the fireflies thin, before the first cool morning. Ninety-seven million people under heat advisories from the Plains through the Southeast.

An talamh fodhad — the earth beneath you. Holding the heat. Patient. Keeping its own record of what this summer was.

What's still shut where you are?

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