Purple goldfish, orange goose

Sometimes, it is just too hot to write.

When it is especially steamy in the metropolis and your cats are drooping and your sweaty little fingers are slipping on the keyboard, Brightly recommends that you go to your basement (don't worry; this is not a tornado warning, though if it is very steamy in the metropolis and a tornado is pointed in your direction, collect your cats and head for the basement, taking shelter in the space under the stairs. Experts recommend that you'll need 2 sq. ft. per cat and 5-6 sq. ft. for yourself (if you are over, say, ten).) and MAKE SOME ART!

Recommended steamy colors: purple and orange
Recommended steamy images: goldfish, the hands of magicians, nasturtium leaves, a goose
Recommended steamy media: paint, ink, squashed vegetables

Today's Dickinsonian oracle ruminates on art in the summer:

Answer July -
Where is the Bee -
Where is the Blush -
Where is the Hay?

Ah, said July -
Where is the Seed -
Where is the Bud -
Where is the May -
Answer Thee - me -

Nay - said the May -
Show me the Snow-
Show me the Bells -
Show me the Jay -

Quibbled the Jay -
Where be the Maise -
Where be the Haze -
Where be the Bur?
Here - said the Year -
(E. Dickinson, 667)