Summer is what you call it when you get a funky-looking tomato from the farm and you cut it up thickish and then you put it on a slab of wheat bread and add a thickish slice of cheddar cheese (I like Lancashire better but that's just cheese shop precious and what's in the fridge is good) and some basil from the deck out back and chives too and what the heck there's too much parsley in that pot, needs thinning. And then you drop it in bubbling butter in the frying pan and put a tired plate from Macy's that was an engagement gift on top and a soup can to weigh it down. And when it's done grilling it's summer, and if only it could always be, then we could all live forever and ever and the light would fill the air like it does.