Tuesday, 19 November 2013

I could have been...

swallows


I could have been…
a speck of dust caught sparkling suspended silver in shaft of sunlight in some slumbering country house late one summer afternoon…maybe
or one in a teaming shimmering shoal of swirling fish fast moving smooth and cool in waters fresh a fathom deep in quiet mountain lake…
now overhead even, in splendorous flight, one swallow in a squadron dipping and turning swiftly in the evening air above some quite ordinary country town…
or chance found on some lover’s summer beach in nature’s delightfully naughty salty air one seductive wriggling sperm, egg penetrated, hey presto! nine months later I am here!
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Dennis Crompton © 2010
(first published www.denniscrompton.wordpress.com 2013)

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