July 24

July 24
Author

Elizabeth Kolling

Published

July 24, 2026

And the weeks go by,

under the silver,

moonlit sky,

the gibbous I of a Western

European city,

where there’s no heat wave,

flood or wild

fire to speak of,

a hot

spring that’s gone,

Luke, warm,

And the Doctor tells her

the metal in her head

is migrating,

unlike the generations of gulls who’ve

become land-locked,

perched on the Irish artist’s

emigration story,

besmirching the bronze cast

to no end.

Zephyr descends.