Didn’t
you always crave a lemon tree,
a
mango or two, the smell of summer?
A
clematis trailing the exposed bricks?
Didn’t
you always dream what this would be?
Less
concrete and curtains and more runner
beans,
citrus suns, hiraeth edging homesick.
The
tides of jasmine covering for the sea.
Halfway
to a sonnet, half a bit firmer
and
freeing itself of every metric
to
lace into an amorphous canopy.
An
empty sparrow’s nest in one corner.
A
bare bulb somewhere, nothing idyllic.
Rain
filling up the sky and rusting grills.
The
paving dusted with hibiscus pistils.
July has run into August and I'm pedalling furiously to catch up somehow but always falling behind, always out of breath and vaguely puzzled as to why this is happening. The idea is to post the first and last Sundays/Mondays but I think the first one has slipped by without my realising it. Oh well, what's done is done, or rather what's left undone cannot be done retrospective, only done late. Anyway, better late than never.
August is always a busy month - lots of family and personal milestones, apart from the big national holiday coming up on the 15th. So offline life will muscle in and shove aside the online one - guaranteed. A few years ago this would have upset me, I'd have scheduled stuff and not missed a single Sunday...but one evolves - I no longer obsess about things I can't help, I don't know for sure if that's a good thing but it doesn't feel like a bad one. 'Do what you can with as much as you have and let the rest go' - I'm still internalising things I should have done years ago. Better late than never...
Wishing you a smooth and tranquil week ahead.
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