Quite lovely, jb, very very lovely.
Judy
2008/9/10 Jim Bennett <[log in to unmask]>
> in the summer time (2008)
>
> the summer was a good idea that someone had once
> but now its like a white Christmas reduced to a song
> a familiar tune that you recognise and know the words to
> but like some drunken karaoke it is distorted
> and just a memory of itself
>
> the trees the plants the animals know the tune has changed
> some of those stuck in Britain after a glassier melted know
> some welcome the change feel their roots swell
> others sniff the wind and begin a long haul
> to somewhere else
>
> across the moors on the drive to see Martha and Millie Rose
> the colours have changed the greens now brown and grey
> the trees twisted memories the lakes and streams
> dry beds three months ago
> burst as the torrential rain makes new rivers
> to pour down into the towns below
>
> once I worried about light pollution
> how it was difficult to see anything through a telescope
> now at eleven o'clock on a summer evening in Wales
> through a break between thick cloud
> it reveals a new world as the CD plays
> a track by Mungo Jerry
>
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