It's Still Life

18 July: Severe Heat Warning (130 words, -1 minute reading time)

Cannes streets empty.
Prismed heat and shards of sun.

Power failures.
No aircon.
No hot water

A cold shower is luxury.

We left Cannes that afternoon,
thinking north might be cooler.
But it’s not.

SatNav has heatstroke.
Did 4 wrong turns.
Put us on the tram tracks,
and then in the bus lane.

… pour l’amour de Dieu.

Arrived Lyon.
Monotone heat, high 30°celsius
day and night,

and Aedes mosquitoes.

Dengue breeds
in the Rhône and Saône.

My granddaughter
pronounces lion the same way
Lyon is pronounced.

Did I mention that I love
the way the French scrambled eggs?
Well, I do.

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