This post includes a poem and a short vignette, both written during a heatwave, four floors up in a flat that never cooled. There’s also some notes on how they came together and fragments from my notebook at the time—scraps of observation and stray thoughts. With the solstice near and the light holding late again, it felt like the right time to share them.
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