Summer Rain

Cornflower skies of

truculent blue

give way reluctant

to po-faced grey

inkspots splashing

on hot stone flags

above our heads

sunshine and behemoths

in open warfare

holiday-wrecking

sweet sweet smelling

landscape enveloping rain

parched earth craving

pinch-penny cloud spill

calling out for more

this great pantomime

delicately lifting

my mood - the sea

suddenly swept

by tempest sheets

gotterdammerung
black clouds angry

gathering over

unknown places

then as quickly pass

like spurned strangers

showing their backs

till conquering sun

triumphant returns

in air scrubbed clean
steaming ground

once more gives up

its ghosts - tramping

children on pavements

in swimmers and flip-flops

clutching bodyboards

big as themselves

beach towels draped
like bright-coloured
medieval banners

on balcony railings

in suburban gardens

hose jets firing off

dusty car metal

rainbow-making spray

artificial, mechanical

summer rain.