A FUTURE ODE

FUTURE ODE

Ω κόσμου ήταν εύκολο τότε, ένας απλός χτύπος της καρδιάς.

The world was easy then; a simple heartbeat,

George Seferis; Love's Discourse

The world is simpler now,

That Nature's all but gone.

A glowering moon,

Orange with simmering fury

gives way to sickening daylight.

Grandiloquent Oak looks out

For what might yet remain,

Beyond the manstained chemical fields,

Finding the hidden wren in the hedgerow.