Monday, 21 June 2021

Solstice in two acts










The swollen 
belly  of flaming 
June arches upwards 
to  meet the burnished 
skies. The white light of 
the North holds its sentinel 
guard before its reluctant 
bow to the darkness. A 
brief interval, before 
it rises once again 
with  a  hard 
vengeance
to bake 
the hot
 terrain
 
Fools gather
eagerly between
those   great  stones
anticipating spectacle
or something miraculous 
yet June’s distended form
plays treachery, and hides
the orb of fire from view.
Solstice  comes  and
goes invisibly once
again  another
victim of the 
covering 
cloud



Steve Wheeler © 21 June, 2021


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