Let me come home to where you watch the skies and keep things right.

Somehow my judgment isn't quite as sure when faced with weather-signs. So she collected the soiled clothes on Saturday when she returned the clean things. But she was a wash-woman, and Monday morning meant a great deal to her. Any other night, Delia Jones would have been in bed for two hours by this time. Sweat & Chalk - Tim Layden - The modern game of football is filled with plays and formations with names like the Counter Trey, the Wildcat, the Zone Blitz and the Cover Two. These chill machines don't do it half as true, the loving regulation of the burning days. Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston It was eleven o'clock of a Spring night in Florida. Zora Neale Hurston’s Sweat Engage: Directions: Find an example of each device from the story Sweat During/Post Reading Questions Literary Device Textual Evidence Metaphor-A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. Even the front door wide now for the slightest breeze, a welcoming of all the season's scents, the jasmine, someone else's supper, and a neighbour's voice - out walking labradors, the only time of day for it, this time of year. Then if the temperature had dropped enough the stays were loosened and the house undressed for night. And in the evenings when the sun had settled and crickets started silvering the night, just home from school, smelling of chalk and sweat, Daddy would do his part of it, the checking, on the front verandah, of the scientific facts. And in the house Mommy would start the daily ritual, whipping curtains closed, then shutters latched against the sun and when you crept in, thirsty, from the garden, the house would be a cool, dark cave, an enclave barricaded against light and carpeted with shadow, still except the kitchen where the door was open to nasturtiums flaming at the steps while on the stove the pressure cooker chugged in tandem with the steamy day.

In summer when the Christmas beetles filled each day with thin brass shrilling, heat would wake you, lapping at the sheet, and drive you up and out into the glare to find the mulberry's sweet shade or watch ants marching underneath the guava tree.

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