If there is an English word
for this heat please send it to me
along with recent pictures
of you being buffeted
there in the autumn break
as a male storm blows over
I am a short distance set
by an internet search and flights
I sit in a festooned bar
watching football from London
as my sweating groceries lounge
in ten cent shopping bags
and I am avoiding the hill
the heat and the inconvenience
of my body