Sunday night fantastic

It is early evening on a Sunday and the day has been long in both length and breath. The sun sets to the west as it does each and every night and seems to take its sweet loving time this evening - savouring each additional moment that it can squeeze out of this lean and lasting summer evening. A summer night fantastic- to which I mean it is a typical August Sunday - the day is hot and seems to last forever - the sun hangs heavy in the sky and slips ever lower into the horizon. Much like a lover slipping slowly into his beloved. Savouring each and every second - savouring the heat and the ever-so-sweet sensation and still lower you sink. Still lower sinks the setting August sun - into the colours that outline the setting of the sun - a setting still hours away but still an event that is inevidable in its approach.
You notice heat in a different removed kind of way, in a way that sticks to your skin like a fine covering of mist but uncomfortable and annoying, for as often as you wipe the sheet of dew from your brow another fine layer appears in its stead. The day is long in the way each minute feels like an hour and each hour feels like an eternity. A infinite amount of time has gone by between the passing of the hands on the clock on the wall. An eternity punctuated by the odd silence-shattering screech of an errant child off in the distant or even more unusual - the sound of dogs barking. An August lullaby meant for canine ears and not human ones. Whatever the punctuating sound - it drifts through the August heat like a helium filled ballon - drifting past my ears and then off to another height before finding its own sad ending at some distant altitude. Alone, the sound will merge with other brief sunday afternoon sounds and as they fade into a strange form of sonic non-existance perhaps they will merge into one grand unifying sound - much, I imagine, like the blowing of some regal and majestic trumpet to signal the end of another day. Another fantastic August sunday afternoon drawing to a close .