You ‘ve seen the beauty
across this
burnt land
and you ‘ve
sailed elsewhere
so many times
you ‘ve flied
and swam your
arms to ache.
If you are here
and tomorrow you
won’t be
if that’s a dust
carried by a life
as lashed out
by an earth
its colour fades
to white
in time and
beneath your eyes.
Longest nights
have come and gone
you are them
yet distanced
a single smile
to hold.
If I could be
the earth
if I could be
her heart
her womb
the centre of
her matter
then I would be.
I would also be
the air
and the mist
and the volcano’s
breath
the drunk soil
the fire
awaiting for a chance.
I would be
waiting for a chance
to blow my winds
along your path
to master their
touch
so gentle
for the safest
journey.
But as I see a
crow
eyeing the land
with perfect moves
I know who I am
the nature I
behold
and even so my
darkest caws.
The land is
black
its peoples call
it ‘burnt’
and just it happens
to match the crow’s flight
in perfection.
5 September
2017,
Thira-Santorini,
Greece.
Photograph:
Kameni (left) & Thirasia (right) as seen at sunset, Caldera-Santorini, Greece,
4 September 2017.
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