Blue Is Greece by Aliki Barnstone

Blue Is Greece
by Aliki Barnstone

Blue is Greece
where fishermen tame their boats
and islands stand
like white monastery birds
on the Greek flag
of spinning blue,
where the sky has few airplanes
floating like gods,
and if one comes
an angel drops a far banner.

PHOTO: Patmos, Greece, by freesurf69, used by permission.