Summer

The watered-down smudge galvanized into a person, torn from the green of the park, runs covering the head with a semblance of a newspaper, half-turned to pulp by the deluge, towards the planetarium colonnade. Children exit with parents through the glass doors, the children's eyes misty with wonders, shown to them a little over a minute ago; the parents, realizing they forgot –or regretting they didn't take – the umbrella. Out there, a figure on a bicycle.