August Evening Memory

from the hill looking down back to the sea, across sussex
grasses swaying gently in evening breeze

purple, white clover, lilac scabius, thistles
cowslips, vetch like lilac broom
red dead nettle, nettle
buttercups
red campion
white cow parsley
grasses

layers of green - blunted by dryness of late summer
distant whites playing cricket
cows, sheep grazing

dry mud
dogs barking
bees - flies zipping past
partridge whrrrr..chucking in the distance
other birds beginning to settle down
warm dry august early evening

background drone of cars, aeroplanes

smell of... dryness
dry flint chalky path winding inbetween nettles
over tree roots

some four legged small animal running through
the undergrowth

one buddlea escaped from a garden

maria joy