The smoke from burning fires settled upon everything,
Creating a kind of unease that is irksome.
My thoughts, prayers, and love goes out to the fire fighters
And those affected by the fires.
yesterday was one of those days in australia of late
where the horizon is smudged with smoke
from some far off fire
and an eerie resounding feeling abounds
as the heat sticks
and plays game with ones mind.
inescapable it is,
the drying fierceness
of the pulsing summer sun.
in my youth, summer would come and go
uneventfully, save for burnt skin
and joy of late evenings under the sprinkler.
now it seems to stretch itself
obtusely across the longer part of
the year creating dread for the likes of me and my coolth
loving kin.
© Allis Hamilton
