We are only 7 days away from breaking the known record, 51 rainless days. (That miracle happened in 1951.) And the air has been clear and cool. Breezes, which have replaced rain, animate the light-hungry leaves that shade our streets.
Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory... More by Charles Mudede