The sun,

slit open
by thistles

of summer heat,
collapses

in lemonade

falls
stripping the sky

to its bare

white bones.
The sun

spilled out
from the sky’s

now broken latch
burns thin

the blue
of
the sea

like drying

petals
caught in thistles

of summer heat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Photo: Alain DAL MOLIN