Cooling Down

The weather’s making amends for a late start to a 

winter which unsubtly ends all of controversy that 

proponent old-timers still dissent; & out there right 

now we’re seeing what they bickered about when 

it began raining - well drizzled actually, fine, misty 

and discretely shy of th’ mammoth storms implied 

likely when global warming shakes its fist - crikey, 

what did they say - it’ll soon be another ice age - 

Tho not quite; the cooler temperatures are seeds 

o’ change we need to recover from a brown burnt 

summer’s indiscretions; yes, it did precipitate, but 

nowhere near as much as in olden days, & falling 

far away from where it’s really needed; and those 

conspiracy arguments anthropologists use f’ who 

Lives by th’ sea claiming refilling of our creeks will 

dangerously raise water levels & endanger urban 

properties - as if we give a rats-tail - yet in th’ end 

a soothing cooling down has better effects than is 

usually expected from any advancing ice age - or 

so palaeontologists and archaeologists say 

But the truth is winter’s arrived - the chill isn’t in a 

breeze as much as a grey-clad sky blotting sun’s 

overheating rays - & given that it may provide us

some blessed rain we begin feeling the gladness 

inferred wisely as a pair of tracksuit trousers, sox 

jersey and boots - with a brolly post-scribed 

© 27 April 2016, I. D. Carswell