Lost in humid streets

Ancient cobbles stumble feet

Swollen by the heat

Bob on baby waves

Undulating up and down

Drifting into sleep

Long lazy slow sea

Fish dart and team in shadows

Tideless and quiet

A thin water strip

Is all that separates us

From familiar foes

Hazy horizon

Storm clouds rumble the mountains

Waking mosquitos

Amphibious life

Moving between pool and pad

Reapply lotion

From dry rocky hills

Watch the sun roll slowly by

Across shining sea

Consumed by the fire

Reflected by searching eyes

Finally sleep fell

Buzzing bumble bees

Busy bringing back breakfast

Between black bristles 

Though I try my best

I will always let you down 

I have no excuse

Under the dark ground

Where woodlice and slow worms hide

Inside ancient bones

Overcast and dull

Another disappointment

Until September

Summer won’t stay long

Nights already drawing in

And what have we done?

Sometimes silence speaks

Louder than shouting or screams

Either way is dumb

Willows I planted 

Only a few years ago

Already dwarf me

A discarded shell

Faded by sea and sunlight 

Useless and broken

Migratory birds

Darken the sky overhead

Like threatening rain clouds

A round white mirror

Peeping from behind the clouds 

Werewolves prowl alone

Treacherous beaches

Sinking in my quicksand heart

Running to the shore

With sodden footwear 

We trudge through barren marshes

When barons once ruled 

Moss covered foothills

Ripples fly across the lake

Like swooping swallows

After a damp noon

Wind whipped clouds rolling away

A silver lining

Freshly cut grass scent

Carries me back to last year

Familiar turf

I will carry you

Over snowy mountain peaks

Until darkness falls