Juliet Wilson

Edinburgh, UK

Juliet is an adult education tutor and conservation volunteer based in Edinburgh. Her poetry and short stories have been wildly published. She blogs at http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com and can be found on Twitter @craftygreenpoet.

Poem written 5^th May 2020

Waiting for Swifts

I stand at the window and stare -
as I always do these days of early May -
into the sky

willing the swifts to return
to prove the globe's still working
even though fewer arrive
each year.

In Greece they fall
from the clouds in freak storms

and fewer remain
to fly the plague bound skies.

It's early days
for their arrival
but still I wonder

is this the year they won't return?

* the globe's still working taken from Ted Hughes' poem Swifts.