“Heat” Margaret McGarvey Georgia Poet @@Bibliography: McGarvey, Margeret. "Heat." LitFinder. Galenet. Starr's Mill Media Center, Fayetteville, Georgia. Date/2007. Heat holds the lowlands now In its hot embrace, Gives the hungry piney-folk Little cause for grace. Women lean all languidlike In the open door, Naked children, puppywise, Sprawl upon the floor. Heat holds the scraggy patch Up to farming scorn, Turns to tawny paper scraps Rows of young green corn. Strips the idling menfolk down To hairy chest and breeches, Leaves the bony cows to thirst At the dried-up ditches. In the shimmering haze of heat Only buzzards pass, Soar above an August world Still as under glass.