Donning cut-
offs, shades
and an XL Hawaiian, I’d been promised
the day would be easy
in its menagerie
of circumstance, butterfly,
heat-haze & seed-head,
that the sun, the one
meant to blaze for me
would arrive, now, from behind
whatever layers of cloud
& everything
I could wish for
be humid
& sweat-soaked, taken
to resting on benches, gloried
& summered &
already dreaming of rain.
offs, shades
and an XL Hawaiian, I’d been promised
the day would be easy
in its menagerie
of circumstance, butterfly,
heat-haze & seed-head,
that the sun, the one
meant to blaze for me
would arrive, now, from behind
whatever layers of cloud
& everything
I could wish for
be humid
& sweat-soaked, taken
to resting on benches, gloried
& summered &
already dreaming of rain.
Jack Houston is Hackney Library's Poet in Residence and is currently holding their Lockdown Poetry Workshop via the magic of Google Hangouts. Email jack.houston@hackney.gov.uk to receive his poetry-packed emails and maybe come join us, too.