Summer Winds

But are they
these blustery
unpredictable
even occasionally
fresh and cool
movements of air
winds of summer?

Or are they
the remnants of
or perhaps
the continuation of
spring breezes
and storms?
For this

is what they
seem like
southeasterly
rather than
hot and dry
northerlies
moderating

is what they
do to the
temperature
rather than
pushing
ever higher.
But one day

soon when they
cease to blow
I will write
again about
the heat
the dust
the dry

in what they
or perhaps
you will
recognise
as a
summer lament

© Peter Bean