I suppose I could have
made better use of my time
I tried my best, honest
~
n.b. 29c at midnight brings new challenges.
CLP 19/08/2022
on time
Tag Archives: Heat
on time
we have had warning
so how long have we got now
starting yesterday
~
n.b. This joke isn’t funny anymore…the warm weather, I mean.
CLP 22/07/2022
on time
left on open grass
laid without ceremony
better things to do?
~
n.b. To the human eye these looked white, to the camera this beautiful blue.
CLP 18/07/2022
on the wing
someone is happy
heat from south draws up insects
squeal of swifts sweep roofs
~
n.b. What joy in the tearaway swooping of young swifts playing tag in between the chimney pots!
CLP 16/07/2022
on spring
after bright warm day
night still comes in winter clothes
no allowances
~
n.b. It was nippy walking home tonight!
CLP 24/03/2022
on light
jeepers! steady on!
you do realise it's March?
get back in your box!!!
~
n.b. We can talk climate disruption, or turn on the air-con. You choose.
CLP 23/03/2022
on Switzerland iii
heat of late September
accumulating moisture
brewing thunder storms
~
CLP 25/09/2021
Man-made
blocks lined-up from blue-prints
radiate back late summer heat
deny sleep
~
CLP 07/09/2021
Late June
early evening rain falling heavy on hot soil, tarmac, stone
evaporates fast, forms humid stock, soured by sweat
bubbles up in steaming cumuli that boil over
drive down dust, pollen and temperature
so that tonight we might sleep
unless it doesn’t and the thick soup simply simmers
as we pull covers off, ache for breathe, pull covers on
attempt to seduce sleep with scent
dowse it with floods of dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin
and still we’ll perspire with pulses pounding
hotter, damp, worse than before
praying for a storm to break
a storm that will wake us where we fell
after sleep caught us off guard
as we lay alert to the flight of a curious mosquito
~
CLP 24/06/2021
On High
.
Gulls feast on ants’ flight
Wily crow, black spot of night
Blends into the light
~
n.b. On days as hot as these ants hatch and fly in millions, a boon to the scavangers of the coast and quick-witted corvids. How far they climb! How many are eaten? How many must be born and borne aloft to survive the insatiable gulls and crow?
CLP 17/07/2020
Voyage des Mots 