august
AUGUST
sunlight enters
pouring through the leading
in the stone-arched windows
of this roofless
church. Valerian in silhouette
is reaching to the open sky;
the dust mites
hover, dancing
in the sultry
glow of august beams, now rising,
falling, tumbling like angels;
purple toadflax crawls along
the walls of broken masonry
and wordless shouts
of running children
echo ringing round
the hollow nave
and the softest star
of thistledown
goes floating past
on unseen currents on its wander
through the ruins
of unconscious pilgrimage. There
is sudden heaviness
of thunder and a darkness
in the air and then it really rains
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