For dinner this evening
I’ll take the Serrano ham and sheep cheese
a jug of water and pieces of fruit
alone to a shaded south mall bench
where the Carrowbeg runs through town
gulls and crows will gather to join me
chatting from the trees asking
Can I try this? Will you finish that?
everyone tells me I don’t like to share
but I don’t mind now my new friends
give me fine company in a foreign land
a quiet meal no pretense or petty laughs
and when we finish I think I will enjoy
just the way the late reflected light
ripples when the birds return to the water
Dinner in Westport
February 1, 2022

Carrowbeg River, Westport. Photo by susanne2688.
February 2022
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