Urban escape

lasithi mountain freedom/ austere and barren/ clearing my souls burden/ being tender to my senses

a living room in the cretan mountains/ store or café/ snap shot of a humble life/ the proprietors aged faces with soul/ question our urban values

it’s only a path/ not even steep/ that we stumble

rolling stones/ no moss/ scratching undergrowth

flocks of sheep/ curious goats/ a timid watch dog

wire gates to open/ a prickly puzzle/ closing even harder

life’s metaphor/ but only a walk/ in the cretan wilds

Coal mine desperados

scorched mountains/ twisted black sculptures once bushes/ hues brown not green/ blue sky though/ a perfect ridge for climbing it seemed/ skid walking on soot/ to get there and back/ scrambling suspicious rock/ adventure miners