zodiac15 Sep 2006

You don't know Dovina. It could very well be. She could have meant that 'rise' is an awkward verb to use for something that people 'raise.'

Anyway, "when the thermostat rises" is not a very useful or evocative expression. It takes me out of the flow of the poem, while I think, "while the thermostat rises? What the hey?" I would just consider saying temperature, mercury, or something else that rises.