Heatwave

(Picture Credit - Daily Express\Met Office)

This muggy, sultry sun is no fun:

Longest sustained heatwave for over forty years.

Suffocating Sahara with Death Valley cracks

In the dry arid soil.

My electric fan shattered with a power surge

Into fragmented plastic shards.

I so miss it now.

It’s oppressively tropical,

With volcanic heat.

And pressure bearing down on us.

The clammy mugginess of a sauna.

Not the clean dry air you find abroad,

Yet still that remorseless torrid scorching,

Roasting and toasting.

Just too much.

Hot air clothed in humid moisture,

Stuffy and sweaty,

Steaming to a haze

And later

Thunder storms.

I long for a cool brew

To freeze my throat

And quench my raging thirst:

Ice cool, ice cool, ice cool.

I’m sure not talking

Of tea.

Paul Butters

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