Sky

Sky 

Some days it is all about the landscape; fields, trees and mountains shimmering

colours patched and matched,

but this long week the gauge has risen, hot and ever hotter

so we bake and barely breathe, seek shade.

Only the birds are moving, chaffinch, dove, swift

and pale butterflies flit;

but clouds are still, puffed and pulled, cirrus in strands

static;

a thing of beauty joy for ever,

watch and wonder

sky

16th July 2013, Hounoux