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free verse

one red sky, several clouds and two lampposts. I took the picture

On my way back,

I thought: “I want to stay here”,

within hills and peace

olive trees and love.

“I want to stay here”,

in a place welcoming me,

this unknown me,

a place I do not know

a place I left before

to get more

out there.

Out of my home

to cross a border

and let my eyes perching

and blossoming

into ever-widening circles.

While the road, gray and white, was snaking

and the day culminating

into a torched sky

by a dying sun — for fun,

I thought:

“I want to stay here,

at home”.