Spring Days--By Ion Corcos--Greece/Australia

Spring Days

Wildflowers grow in a vacant lot

where sheep graze, old ladies hunch,

collect chamomile to dry. Flowers

touch above knees on this hot day

when there is no wind. A distant horn

of an inward ferry cuts across the town

of this small island; it shifts me, as do

strings plucked slow on a bouzouki.

Ion Corcos was born in Sydney, Australia. The themes of his poetry center on life, nature, and spirit. His poems have appeared in many journals. Ion also writes short stories and non-fiction. He enjoys reading, cooking and traveling, currently traveling indefinitely with his partner, Lisa, most of the time in Greece.