Sunday 14 June 2015

Which place are you from?

This is home                         now
brightly painted room
faded carpet             mustard recliners
matching cushions

malodorous wafting odours
rose scented freshener
vanquished

you look vacantly
the screen blurred
your gaze falls on me
follows me around the room

Apo pio meros eisai?
Which place are you from?

stroking my hand             seeking connection
meeting of eyes
a shared colour            a shared tongue
strange familiarity





brittle fragments of memory       like bone
dispersed inside your head
the blithe state of youth
the blue of the ocean
olive groves            left behind



faces clear with misplaced names
warm August nights            eating figs
ripened by the sun
seasons clear            with purpose
soft pallor of young skin now worn
life’s map             a destiny

Apo pio meros eisai?

Published in Social Alternatives January 2015


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