- 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]