Taste
in the atmosphere
across all highway lanes
is captured in the first sense of a dizzying warmth
and watching twice before you cross the road now.
Mountain peaks circle the eyes
but my thought has already dived in the sea
or the river
or inside an afternoon even warmer than this one.
The senses have developed different signposts for each other thing
and I've been spending my time lately tracking down disagreements;
without resolutions.
Today the sun smelled like curry
and there was so much joy
like that time
when it was close to Easter
and at the heart of Spring
and the only reminder of those was the day becoming longer
and the coffee was not getting cold so quickly anymore,
neither were your hands.
We sat by the river bridge
eating fries dipped in curry sauce
fighting seagulls
staring at the land across.
April 2021,
Athens.
Photograph: stream of Ouse, Rodmell, East Sussex; June 2017.
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