Poetry – Issue 8 | February 2010
Summer is
by Cora Greenhill
not full here
she is dry and rattles
she is clawed.
She is burrs on my hem
the thorn in my sandal
the ant’s sting on my thigh.
She has engineered
an infinite variety
of husks:
an armoury
of carriage designs
hooked, toothed, and spiked.
There are gliders and spinners
pods sticky and smooth
parachutes, catapults
and ingenious explosive devices.
Her colonising will
is absolute.
Only the birds’ songs
are fluid
and they are merely collaborators.
I retreat to rub balm
on my unprotected legs
and then Marika appears
her arms full of apricots.
About the author
Widely travelled in Europe, Africa and USA, Cora Greenhill constantly returns to inspirational Crete. Her poems have appeared in The Interpreters House, Staple, and Tears in the Fence, as well as anthologies. Read her book, Deep in Time (Dreadful Work Press, 1999).
Read our current issue, Issue 8 | February 2010:
Poetry
Berlin by Sy Margaret Baldwin
Two Poems by Sean Edgley
After Your Funeral I Set Out to Find You in Different Time Zones by Jennifer Faylor
Painter by Ricky Garni
Other Than by Dana Guthrie Martin
Two poems by Timothy Kercher
Five Views of Guanajuato: A Mythology by Athena Kildegaard
Two poems by Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
Goya by Trent Nutting
The Changing of the Flowers by Jennifer Saunders
Two poems by Ken Turner
Postcard prose
Buttons by Jennifer Faylor
The Enemy Tree by Kirby Wright
Escape on the Canal by Addie Zierman
