Dulce Domum
Sardinian woods are scruffy
in October heat.
A sharp tang of old goat
mingling with woodsmoke
beats on the newly erected
villa fence.
Decidedly this is not England.
The track was deceptive, bent
on a recollected scatter
of peeling stucco, blistered shutters
and a dwarf tower –
belfry or fort? A chorus
of shacked-up dogs
broke into silence like a vengeful mob.
The derelict Bronze Age
rotunda squats
to the rear of a Devonshire-lane-high
bank in a tangle
of blackberry clusters – you’ll go
no farther back
than here from what was not to be.
A collapsed farmhouse chokes
on squandered orchards
in the trough below. Crickets on the hearth
are not at home,
crazy mountain ramparts
edge your sky,
old walls confound the urge to roam.
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