A summer breeze sighs

Releasing sultry mid-day heat

Smells linger on in warm air

Mild currents gently move low branches

Which reach down and slowly wind the air

Dry leaves tumble

To scatter in drifts below

On a parched ground

Flowers swelter in their neat dry beds

To then wilt and buckle on weary stems

 

As the day lengthens

The weight of the heat

Grows languid in stuffy rooms

The genteel glow, perfuming the air

With their sweetened sweat

Moving becomes shuffled and stilted

Flies and insects crawl along the walls

Sticky with heat

The world slows down

Life lived at a different pace