The syrupy summer 2022

 

Syrupy because it was always going to be rich, but before it I'd thought in a Gin & Tonic kind of way and not a White Russian way. But it's here, after all these years, this manifestation exists and how fortunate to live to get to the feel it all. What's next? Not the moon presenting itself to meet our poetic needs at our moment, but instead just ... so ridiculous we expect it to or imagine that it did. It didn't mean to represent something, as it does every fullness of summer August. But every moon is the muse of a curious person. There are better poems than others for that. But this is how I feel about it all....