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my mother’s mother’s (first draft)

November 16, 2022November 15, 2022 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

my mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s mother

[more mothers]

walked out of the sea a million years ago

[check timescale]

and now I find myself dreaming back in that direction

the sea as far as the moon-touching horizon

[and there is nothing to add]

summer love

August 8, 2022 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

sweeter than ice cream

salt as the ocean beyond the horizon

a snap of peperoncino

sea time, night

July 1, 2022June 30, 2022 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

north breeze on wet skin shivers

white horses under a midnight moon

hands touching hands sparking fire

27 December

December 27, 2021 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

eagle loops

thunder cracks

most highly beloved

walks out of the deepening sea

Inspired by John

03 December

December 3, 2021 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

ideas are said to widen minds

winding rivers ever closer to the sea

seething foam now calmed

and, on the shore, unharmed where salt meets sweet,

an unopened bottle of mountain air

Inspired by Francis

last day

September 30, 2021September 29, 2021 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

clouds begin to gather above the distant mountains across the sea

swimmers wade from the water, warming bodies with wrapped arms

a lizard disappears behind the waterfalling caper bush

and, as we look at one another, we understand

night clouds part

September 28, 2021 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

night clouds part

as the west winds whisper away the mist

and sunlight cleanses the sea

September Salento

September 20, 2021 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

clouds roll across the sun

in time with the crash of the waves

as we pick up towels and run for the car

the sky cries red-dust raindrops and we laugh

on the sea

September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

on the sea

the rain is falling

sweet water softening the salt

one day soon

these showers will pass

on the roof 2

September 7, 2021 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

icy roof shower

nakedness dodging

the neighbours’ sharp eyes

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