Monday, 30 April 2012

Icarus skywriting # 1


Wooosh...
Not Yet May

The rain has gone
and sunshine has appeared 
in a pale,
blue sky daubed with white
puffs of clouds and skywriting.
Contrails and vapour trails,
spinning tales 
of journeys to and from 
the end of the earth;
and I attached a poem
to an aeroplane tail,
for peace and love and life...


April may not have been the cruellest month but it was driech and I am anticipating the changes of May, where I can begin a new cycle of writing and general good health. It has felt like a long year so far. May it slow into summer, come May! 'Amelia it was just a false alarm...' Ah, Joni, 'like Icarus ascending...'