Incidents related to the 1st year of my son

Kabouropoulos Socrates
2012

you turn around, in the upright position
and give me your butter-fly smile

*

tea spoon and tea fork
tea tie and t tock
t-aim-ed

*

asleep gone, and beautiful
coming back

*

ever since you asked me if 'I'm Ok'
I'm not

*

our skin
ages
when we grow up

*

sleep and
while you sleep

your temples soften
the tempest

*

it takes time and art
to stand on your feet

*

the tiger you watched carefully
the hare caught your attention
the birds scared you, made you cry
a goat comforted you

then we sat peacefully by the window

to watch the few last drops of sunlight
on the savannah

 

  [1st Published in the collective volume Ars Poetica, ed. Vassilis Manoussakis, Hellenic American Union, Athens, 2012]

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