Clouded

Cream and apricot curdling

over the edge of sunrise.

Gold-flecked puffs of cloud

Lift eyes and thoughts

above the bobbing plastic

and the throbbing trucks.

2 February 2021

Photo description: A fluffy patchwork of stratus cloud fills the sky. Cool greys brighten into a soft blaze around the sun, rising huge and white behind the silhouetted apartment blocks opposite Durban harbour.