Wet grey skies empty beer-gardens and high streets - filling garden centre cafes
forecasts predict ruined weekend plans
unfinished Saturday morning gardening promises
unlikely sporting afternoon aspirations
through the open patio door as if...
as if summer still shone
warm and bright - but not so
as raindrops hit the unused...
unusable
patio surface; hard
raindrops drown in water-logged
unmown lawns
the colour of Autumn changing leaves
fallen
lay - another job undone
amidst Sunday evenings anxiety
sit and watch Sundays
hour-hand
sweep you into another working Monday morning
as another list of good intentions lay dying in front of your eyes
another weekend
laying dead at your feet
to the tick...
tock...
tick...
of the grandfather clock
standing in the hallway
