Heads thrown back and eyes glaring gold, They strut like afternoon stallions, Six inches tall and certain of everything. Their feathers are a mess, Their voices - adolescent and shrill - how can they be so bold? Their tailfeathers fan and bounce as they take off, Ascending and twisting midair they murmur over the skyline like starlings, Into the trees and back out again several times, Once is never enough. The sun is blazing as it sinks. They circle the city, victorious.
You came in combat shorts
controlling attention
my American,
Speaking poetry to me
unintentionally
in pidgin Pashto.
I'm sure you've blown skulls
wide open with half formed words
and you frightened me
with your fearless fire.
You chased away the trouble that had
settled heavy over my shoulders and down into
every hair and pore and breath like desert dust.
You were different.
Your eyes shone with the promise
of golden gates
and red bridges to white sheets
across blue gaps and hotels and museums and forests full of God
and everything
and everything seemed possible.
I did not think you would leave me.
And it returns from
Great clear, crisp style; a wonderful wielder of words! LOve your avatar, and Spamuel is the coolest name for a poet, Sam. Guess I'm a fan, huh? Cheers, mate.