breathless...

100 words - because, damn it was hot last week!

delirious on the hill

La canicule — the heat over the last ten days has been unbearable, so much so that sensible people have closed all their shutters and windows and not moved from their coolest rooms, except perhaps to quench their raging thirst…

I of course, much as I would have loved to be one of those sensible people, have been forced to chase bad tempered sheep from the neighbours field and mend fences. Returning, half dead and dehydrated from the blistering heat only to turn around ten minutes later to repeat the torture because eight sheep are once again bleating outside the gate on the lane.

Over heated and delirious have been words of the week and the strangest thoughts and visions have plagued me, plus, I seem to have been singing Bob Dylans Romance in Durango - 🎶hot chilies peppers in the blistering sun🎶 involuntarily for days…

Inevitably, 100 words…

Breathless

The day is breathless 

I count, breathe in

I count, breathe out

I count, 

I dream 

of mountains

Everest, K2

No, Mont Blanc

(it’s closer)

of clouds 

skimming over 

snowy peaks

I’m thinking

further

of glaciers

of ice caps

dream melts

motionless

still breathless

I count again

I breathe again

breathe in

breathe out

wait 

I dream 

again,

the Qattara Depression

a film

‘Ice cold in Alex’¹

a glass of beer

the sigh, the relief 

but this film is old,

the spool runs out

dream melts

I am breathless

I count

I wait

I breathe 

I count

I am melted…

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Inspiration from a red hot week and the amazing Erica Drayton and Free Writing Fridays and I am very late this week, I’m blaming crazy temperatures!

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Ice Cold in Alex, for those two young to have seen this old movie, is explained here - it was one of my fathers favourite books and movies.