Sundown: Alicante Province Poem by John J Doyle

Two day stubble and sombrero soil
under orange-tree sunsets,
the hanging drift of day's cache of light
Orito, Montforte;

the adolescent olive trees
near the blurred red car
are stalked by sunlight
between

swollen glands of soil,
a few groves, whitewash ranches,
men in fields idle near JCBs -
and the highway's lemon-housed posse;

Novelda's church dares mountain to dislodge it from its perch,
the fields are an elegy of browns,
of electric railway poles,
gorse fire smoke yet to be - perhaps enamoured


23/2/2018