Summer

"Britain's brief period of fine weather is over, as forecasters predict unsettled, wet and windy conditions for at least the next four weeks."


Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain

A tattering of rain and then the reign
Of pour and pouring-down and down,
Where in the westward gathered the filming gown
Of grey and clouding weakness, and, in the mane
Of the light's glory and the day's splendor, gold and vain,
Vivid, more and more vivid, scarlet, lucid and more luminous,
Then came a splatter, a prattle, a blowing rain!
And soon the hour was musical and rumorous:
A softness of a dripping lipped the isolated houses,
A gaunt grey somber softness licked the glass of hours.


Delmore Schwartz 1913-1966