Image with thanks to postcardiva.blogspot.co.uk
On the verge of blue,
it goes for grey
brings 16°C instead of heat.
A midday change of mind: the afternoon
turns kindly, warm
to swims in ponds and lemon sorbet
if it weren’t a Wednesday workday.
London, July 2013
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