and in English? Seriously, thanks, learnt 2 new words today!
Couple of minor comments below...
--- James Bell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Back to short
pieces. C& C welcome.
>
> ON THE ISLANDS
>
> The sirocco races for Anatolia,
> break[s] itself into [watery bits] not in keeping with the rest of
the poem
> upon the headlands
> and bury them in the smoke of spray
> from an internal fire
> eternal in the way waves
> strike out against the land.
>
> As the epithalamium
> celebrates the end of joy [is marriage the end of joy?]
> the epitaph is brief
> on islands where
> it is unwise
> to pick the asphodel.
>
> bw
> James
>
>
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