Summer

Close up photo of parrot’s beak plants covering the ground. — Parrot’s beak

Typical summer:
parrot’s beak on nature strips;
ground covered in flames.

Alight

Photo of the summer sunset, with the silhouette of a house and a jacaranda tree in the foreground.

Highlight of the day:
sun setting the sky on fire;
summer silhouettes.

Heatwave

photo of the sun setting behind suburban houses on a hot summer night

Brewing up a spell,
cauldron of dizzying heat—
summer sun cackles.

Heat stroke

close up photo of a dying sunflower

Shrinking in the heat,
sunflower whose time has come—
summer gardeners.

At last

Photo of a large tree in an empty suburban street. There are streaks of white clouds against a blue sky and tyre skid marks on the bitumen.

Clouds claw through the skies,
wild tyres screech across our roads—
summer has arrived.