Save me from this stifling heat! It's been consistently hot for whole days at a stretch - unprecedented. It would be nice to enjoy this sunny weather, but we have been clearing out the back yard preparatory to doing a lot more house renovation. Thirty degrees is really not the weather to be lugging heavy things about the place and digging the garden, especially after throwing up a lot only a couple of nights ago as a result of too much digging.
It looks as though tomorrow will be even hotter, so we're changing tack slightly and painting the front windows and walls instead, because at least that involves standing relatively still. The sun is around the back of the house in the morning, so the front will be beautifully cool. Well, maybe not cool, but it won't be like the inside of a cowboy's chaps.
Here is another poem, possibly finished... I don't really know.
Inside Out
Soul's window, grimy, broken, boarded-up;
beyond in darkness lies a barren hall,
its vaulted ceiling filled with nightmare's stench,
illusive, transient, shaking silent walls -
dreams perish in this sepulchre to thought-crime.
Shades of years forgotten haunt the shadowed
places of this desolate, silent void.
Shattered glass gleams treach'rously and gashes
unwary aggressors, no fool unbloodied here.
Metallic slash and hack of rusty swords.
Within, screams lacerate the air, despairing -
corroded blades drip poison from without,
but cannot reach the psyche in its tomb.
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