after some grey days comes the sun summer heat spectacle on the Seine
to commemorate
"La Route de l'Armada" a fleet for tourists that never was
yet nice to watch nevertheless with fireworks & stately masts sails folded orderly decks scrubbed the crews all smiles ready to answer all the children's questions
in between gray & inaccessible some men-of-war of more contemporary make
among them somewhat tarnished one single ship that really carried allied soldiers in its sightless hull on that gray morning
and suddenly if only for a moment you smell the sweat of fearful courage hear ammunition click into magazines the waves break dull with hollow sound amidst the crashes of firework artillery that splits the waters upward from the ground
This is about a show of ships commemorating, sort of, the landing of the Allies on D-Day in World War II on the coast of France