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.
