Impulses

"Impulses conjures a mosaic of old world images, tiled with colours and dilemmas from the present. Manolis ransacks his classical Greek roots and the cosmopolitan now, to unearth some meaning for his modern existence."
- Apryl Leaf

Excerpt

Relief
What a relief spring is over
and the soldiers with their rifles  
spouting sunlight through
their barrels left They came  
in the midst of April as if there wasn't
any other way for the spring 
to come but with soldiers holding
rifles What a relief frost is over 
and the chickadee dreams
on another nest of another chick 
or two just another reason for
the red jib to unfurl just another 
reason for the white chapel
to be repainted in whitewash