sanguine summer sun
august above
the minted morass
hazy
sweltering heat
humid smog
opaques
obscuring
butter churned rays
smeared
saffron and cream
setting in orange
glazed
oil paint
vermillion yolk
frozen
stretching out wild in
feeble ripples
still waters disturbed
caught beneath
the thrust of
mayflies
pirouetting
then
passing on