Edinburgh springtime
T-shirts, sandals, sunglasses
Tourists in mufflers
weather
I wish you had left me in winter
I wish you had left me in winter
The sky could have rained tears of ice
The wind could have howled desperation
But here I am alone
looking up at blue skies
I feel the sun on my skin
and the heat in my bones
I wish you had left me in winter
Chill summer gale
Come sweet zephyrs of the southern seas,
Come flattering breaths of gentle gods to ease us on our way – No?
No, we must remember our place and it is here,
Remember our place and hirple head down into the teeth of the chill summer gale.
Edinburgh 01 June
I could see Fife then
I could see Fife then
I couldn’t but
I could see the Forth then
I couldn’t but
I could see outside the window then
I couldn’t then
the snow
An amber weather warning
I told Amber there was an amber weather warning. She didn’t laugh. She didn’t smile. She looked past me, out of the window, and said ‘Mao’.
simonsalento 