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Zakynthos - Late June

Zakynthos –Late June

Swallows pull turns the envy of fighter pilots.

Airborne acrobats harvesting insects in mid-air

to feed a cornucopia of hatchlings.

Butterflies, fluttering flying machines,

the size of saucers, dancing between perfumed

blooms, prospecting, lured into pollination.

Feral kittens chase one another’s tails

up a convenient tree, regardless

of the difficulty of returning to earth.

And as the sun reaches its flaming zenith

and the furnace drives us beneath

what shelter we can find,

Careta careta swims for Africa

after laying her future in the sand.

Solace

 

 

Solace

Well thumbed
This old volume
Of my best loved poems.
I turn to them in troubled times
For peace.

They quell
The cacophony in my mind
So that I can focus
On what means most
To me.