twenty-odd degrees is the axial tilt

relative to the ecliptic

so solstices are more sunny at a pole

lights out at the other

so the heat of a midsummer sea

is most energetic at that encircling bulge

closest to the fusion reactor heating sea-nrew

so storms and hurricanes

so tides and land-crawling newbies

so us

thus us

so thank the tilt we’re here