We’ve had a bumper summer in Guernsey this year and the seemingly-endless sunshine has made Lockdown and the attendant Covid-restrictions tolerable in a way that overcast skies would never have done.
The last couple of days, however, with high winds and abundant leaf fall, are a stark reminder that autumn is just around the corner.
END OF THE AFFAIR
The heating gets switched on.
Sandals build nests in the boot-box.
The old straw hat sleeps, purring,
on the shelf where, overnight,
hats become cats.
Jumpers sidle out
like pale young vampires in early dark.
The game’s up.
Summer’s finally pushed off
as you always knew it would:
a false friend,
a good lover gone bad.
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