Eight days ago
Butterflies in profusion
A warm calm
The end of an Indian summer
Today the gulls battle the wind
As if maniacs in flight
Who knows their destination, or
Understands there sense of reason
Yesterday; fire and snow
Love, with infatuation
& snippets
Of a vagrant poet’s words
Before that there was long ago
Humans with spoken stories
Of cold indeterminate struggles
At the beginning of civilisation