In London, the weather is a gentle sashaying mockery. An Indian summer reminds us of the sullen apology of summer which we have just endured. Soon it will be winter, and ‘A cold coming we had of it’.
As always, poetry is a respite. My first resort is usually Yeats. In English, no one except Shakespeare is better at turning language into music.
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