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issue 3: HEATWAVE

forecast

JACK HOUSTON
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.

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.
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