Summer
Created | Updated Jun 14, 2008
Not a cloud
in the razor bright blue
Pale haze
blurs the horizon
No breath of air
stirs leaf or hair
Thick dust
dun and dreary
chokes roadside weeds
Nettles and docks
plantains and thistles
Droop
in the dry
oppressive heat
Pollen beetles
from fading rape
Drawn
resistless
to yellow T-shirts
Dozy bees
crawl
on wilting fox gloves
An exhausted thrush
wings hung limp
Stands panting
on a gate post
feathers ruffled
Summer is hell!
Roll on Winter...