A curtain drifts to and fro

Sunlight on the open shutter

Sky beyond an untouched blue

Irredeemably blue - on and on

The ocean motionless

Fading into distant haze.

 

The air moves

This way then that,

Silence -

An occasional cicada

Above tinder-dry grasses

Where old sheep tracks

Criss-cross the Cretan eremia.