Look at you – Take a photo in your mind.
Make it burn around the edges.
curling ash from dark of night
A sepia sunrise with a touch of orange and the taste of lemon light

When that sun begins to blaze,
Close your eyes – tight – clouds against the blistering flare

Let’s make that photo noisy and hear it
Hear how sounds can make assumptions
Like the sizzle on a barbecue reminds of pattering rain
or rustles in crackling paper, recall static on the telephone
This maunder is an echo making shadows in your brain
It’s a sudden faint of pressure falling, gasps inhaling, gulps of fear
Sees you dizzy, wondering. – What’s coming?
What will frame her next idea?

Now you have the picture, painted, brushed with nothing – atmosphere
This then be most of us, trying best, making do – making it up as we go
Not really seeing what’s there
Living life within and dreaming – Drifting, blinkered, unaware.