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