Poppi with C and D

Before the heat got going we had coffees and air-light cornetti. It was nice to have a laugh in the cool shade of the lime trees. Sometimes it’s exhilarating to dig into your own shared cultural storehouse of wit and innuendo.

Later I was chatting with the watering cans in the meagre shade before staggering out into the sun. It was the lingua franca of water: its shape, size, weight, breadth, clarity, fluidity and live-givingness.