Poem: 'ANOTHER LANGUAGE FOR LIGHT'

ANOTHER LANGUAGE 

FOR LIGHT 

(notes from the Greek Diaries: 

August-September 2004)

catamaran out from Marmaris
ignites wake of spilt jewels, as
Greek TV-Soap endlessly spools
on-screen above the Bar

Rodos town,
an abrupt sunset,
night tinged with day in the
jittery animation of bats

local coach through to Lindos,
speaking in pauses,
separated by breaths,
here, only time extends
without end

an ant ascends
the curve of your breast,
flicking it away,
my fingers continue
its climb

a million white pebbles
mosaic our courtyard,
each one a breath,
each one a life,
monastic arches, ancient beams,
a wall of photos, a silver laptop,
a circular bowl of grapes

pleasurable navigations
give shape to
chance meanders,
which we enchant
across the night
with poems

an ant threads
your triangulation of hair,
flicking it away,
my tongue completes
its journey

a cockerel crows,
a cat sleeps away
day-heat, lean beneath
cerise bougainvillaea
until
slow ferry
to Symi cleaves
new stories…



Published in:
'MINOTAUR no.49'
(USA - February 2008)