It is a great privilege to welcome back Syd Blackwell with his second poetic travel highlight. I think we may see a third before this contest is out! Anyway, in the meantime enjoy Syd's latest entry in the 2016 Travel Highlights Competition.
SKOPELOS KAT
Skopelos cat
is not fat
is lean and mean
in fights
at night
for fish head
or chicken bone
or territorial home
is quick
or slow with broken hip
or dead
with wounds
too obscene to lick
is sore of eye
or missing fur
or short of tail
Skopelos postcard cat
is caught
in orange door
on woven mat
in blue window
with potted flowers
eats whole fish
from fishing boat
is fat
is not Skopelos cat
Trikala, Greece
July 17, 1989
| Syd Blackwell I lived in British Columbia, Canada´s western province, for most of my life. I was a teacher, and a college employee (various roles - instruction, recruitment, promotion, counselling, research), before re-inventing myself as an innkeeper. I designed and had built my B&B inn in Revelstoke, which I operated for nine years. |  |
At age 60, my wife and I retired to Uruguay, where we will soon have lived for a decade.Innside Stories is my first published book. I have extensive writing experience in Canada with other publications. In Uruguay, I wrote 75 articles for a now defunct online magazine called Ola Uruguay. We live in Villa Argentina, a suburb of Atlántida, on the coast of Uruguay. We have five dogs.
Link: Innside Stories: Anecdotes from Wintergreen Inn 1995-2004
Link: Innside Stories: Anecdotes from Wintergreen Inn 1995-2004
