Nomad

A blousy tent

on a slow-go trail

A leathery balloon

swaying jungle-free

A sail-eared face

playing cascades

A house on stilts

trimming waves of air

© Katherine Gallagher

(Published in A Trunkful of Elephants, ed. Judith Nicholls, Methuen Children’s Books, 1994)

• Submitted in response to  Prompt #31