Inspiral Daze

Temperatures plummet:

Silent frosts change landscapes and

form barbed wire cobwebs.

Stress City’s landscape:

A blur of abstract colours,

sense eclipsed by speed.

First breath of winter

caresses morning landscape

with icy silence.

Wood smoke and cockerels

mingle languidly at dawn,

low mists undisturbed.

Autumnal snowflakes

randomly pepper dry fields.

Hint of things to come?

Skeleton flowers

reach moonward in unison.

Determined decay.

Diamante cobwebs,

gaudy against morning mists:

Divas in their field.

As if to sweeten

the truth of Summer’s passing,

fruit ripens slowly.

Seagulls dip and wheel,

their cries carried towards France

beyond the sunrise.

A vacuum-packed day,

colour and movement sucked out.

An ominous start.