~
a marmalade sun briefly sets
the horizon aflame before
quenching itself as it climbs
behind the city’s silhouette,
it will be cooler today they say
on the early news and we might
already have had our summer,
I feel deluded and disquieted
by the phoney heat as if being
mislead by some greater force
that I do not fully understand
but am willing to be coerced by,
so with this self-satisfied
scepticism and knowing that
good things do not last forever
I launch myself like a newly
christened boat into Tuesday,
it’s 5am and the city beast is yet
to rouse its cantankerous head
itself still basking in this faux
continental sleight of hand
as I sit to consider my options.
*
© Graham R Sherwood 07/25
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