Midday

I was trying to capture in a word the mood of a summer midday in a particular place (= the place where I happened to be just then) in a particular moment in the city. It felt like silence, which is odd because the city is seldom silent, and it wasn't silent then: there were the cries of the gulls, the hum of machinery (ventilation systems?) from the nearby business buildings, and so on. Stillness, that's it; stillness, as in non-presence of movement and action. It was an open space, with no one else going by just then; the heat of the bright sun, the empty benches waiting for someone to sit. It sounds like silence.