JUNE 19 (PRIDE STRIPT & WHIPT)

An Eclogue:

KONSYNEAS:
I planned a simple trip home
to inspect the yields of my Father’s fields,
but saw in the air a drone;

and rows of new apartments
I wept when I found nearly all around,
a sight that my heart resents.

Traffic noise from a new road
rather than bird songs,
for which my heart longs,
wounded my ears like a goad.