Are there objects that can absorb heat without becoming hot?

Or what about this

A fly trapped in a bakery display case
will not starve,
but suffocate.

Or how’s this one

Fear stays put
like eggs crusted to the pan.

The cobweb in the corner of the ceiling
grows into the canopy
of my four post bed.

Or maybe, it’s like

When you crouch down
to let a good natured dog smell you
hoping she won’t be able to tell
how often you dream of destruction.

She licks your hand and says
“I know you have hurt others, but even I have bit a hand or two”

What I’m trying to say is this

I’m rounding the corner
on a spiral staircase
in a bad acid lead foot fashion
hoping I make it out the door
before anyone has time to realize
that I’m gone.

text by Tina Scarpello

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