Goat grace

(for Faye)

by T.P. Wilkinson / June 26th, 2022

Curious characters

Nibbling everywhere satisfied
Agile stepping far and wide
Curious characters
on narrow tracks
travel light
no kit on their backs
A thousand faces
kissed by the breeze,
a thousand paces
ascended with ease.

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..

This article was posted on Sunday, June 26th, 2022 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.