Samaria, Crete
At this moment, having
climbed among boulders
and walked beside water;
having noticed the crags
and the clouds and the eagles,
having sat under oleanders
in flower and spied the Great
Dragon - the sharp, black barb
in the heart-shaped spathe,
the enchanter; at this moment,
pincered in striated walls,
as I write you are picking
your way along narrow trails
in the neck of the gorge,
dazed by the sundance of Crete
in mid-May. I envy the black sand
at Aghia Roumeli, that bastinadoes
your pebble-bruised soles;
I envy the air that you breathe,
the jade sea that receives you.
*The Great Dragon, dracunculus vulgaris, is a lily with large, deep crimson spathes, known to the ancients as an aphrodisiac. It appears in spring in the Gorge of Samaria, in Crete.
Walking the Gorge
© Copyright: Jena Woodhouse, 2003
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