Relief arrived 
fresh chilled 
air cold
water and 
blankets comfort
a letter 
with news
a cool
shower and 
sun once
again as
friend and 
not foe
this feeling 
of dreams
not dread
that summer 
and its 
relentless madness 
made damnation 

Today summer has
entered the chat
like a lion
whose humid breath 
smells of its 
last kill acrid
and acidic and 
not at all
forgiving and I 
a mouse simply 
looking for shade
dare to wander 
beneath its mantle 
hoping that small 
won’t be noticed 
such are the 
desperate times of 
scorching summer heat 

Oh it’s started 
I am Stonehenge 
or a pyramid 
or some other 
monolith constructed simply 
for this moment 
when low east
sun strikes windows 
and bathes everything 
in cool wash
of golden orange 
I am baptized 
in freshwater new
this glorious glow
brings a hope 
that only a 
new dawn can 

Life truly 
is nothing 
more than 
a washer
the day 
goes into
night dirty
where dreams 
are soap
and nightmares 
are water 
tossing and 
turning dissolves 
days disappointment 
then comes 
the final 
spin of 
coffee’s caffeine 
and fresh
we are
for another 

Let us
not then
for to
brings me 
sends me
skyward like 
some pebble 
thrown meant
to land 
somewhere else 
than where 
I started