It's the end of Summer. There is a noticeable coolness setting in and the evenings are darkening sooner. As nature flags the moving on the year with the disappearing snowdrops, the arrival of lambs, the explosion of whitethorn, so the restlessness of swallows marks the onset of the cooling year.
September Swallows
Careering, dipping, wheeling;
knots unbinding,
lifting from the wires
(crochets escaping staves)
as though their true selves
too long furled
must be released in flight.
The restlessness in their DNA
compelling them to escape
to the grander arias of global skies;
smooth their energies
to become tomorrow's arrows
Morocco-bound.
