June 7, 2009: Larnaca, Cyrpus: “Ivory Highlights”

Published in the A Year in Revolt: March 15, 2009-March 15, 2010, Journal

Ivory highlights in cinnabar water,
silver shimmers when I touch
the surface with my fingertips.

A gull drifts too close
and I look up into sunlight,
splintered into smithereens.

Like an arrow from a bow
the pink hibiscus blossoms
die within a single afternoon.

Whitecaps spike the wind,
all afternoon they leap
as water drips from the

stone, drips from the
hibiscus, from leaf
to leaf to leaf.