warmth and freckles

The sun massages muscles 

easing tightness

The very bones begin to melt

Losing the rigidity of stress

Body sinks into the oblivion of heat

Nothing here to fear

Relaxes out of its foetal position

Stretches out limbs to seek the sun

Light hugs the contours of the skin

Which tingles in delight

At all this attention and exposure

After a winter hidden

Beneath the woollens and layers

Within one week the cosiness of socks

Have become an obscene encumbrance

It seems to happen so suddenly

This winter summer transition 

in two more weeks I shall hunt out the shade

But now in this excitement of sudden summer heat

I soak up the rays that cook the skin

and generate both warmth and freckles 

in equal abundance.