blocks lined-up from blue-prints
radiate back late summer heat
deny sleep
~
CLP 07/09/2021
Man-made
Tag Archives: Heat
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
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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
