Black Day

Half a dozen lifeguards are chatting under the shelter of the eaves.
In the goose-pimpled water, there is one swimmer.
A pitch-dark cloud has spread over the pool from behind the thick green of the trees, from the direction of Omiya shrine.
The first syllables of the words "September" and the " sixth", make "kuro" - black in Japanese.
A large crow with a proud posture walks up and down.
He is inspecting our summer Paradise.
A few more days and he’ll be the boss till next July.