white cross on sea

 

 

 

 

 

white cross on sea*

για ο,τι μου δόθηκε απο την καρδιά αυτού του λαού,
απο τον ήλιο τους, άσπρη  καρδιά της θάλασσας
for what was given to me by the heart of this people,
by their sun, white heart of the sea

they
had it hard
as any land’s lot
ever was
forced to mouth
an unaccepted peace
for centuries under
another’s sword
the ottoman yoke
to fight hand-to-hand
scuffling in snow
with mussolini’s merry
men ‘blood brothers’
he said of the olive
and grape*,

loft

loft

The rain played gull piano on a green sphere, a Weathercat snap of that.

rain
piano*
loft
piano
cloud
piano
drops on glass
piano
cluster and
slip in
piano

imploding

imploding
31 august 2017

Weathercat image kidnap in situ of the poem

the sky
this dusk
wreathed with
din and squawk
of mynah birds
packed in by
the dozen
some dropping
out fluttering
upward back
into the scabbards
of dark under