Touchdown (No 1 of ¡Las Canciones Bravas!)

Murray mints himself a gold medal

Evening Standard, 5 August 2012

Tilting at our final descent
into Girona's dawn, we are cupped
like a candle's flame by the Pyrenees
ascending - a welcome of sorts -

setting us down upon burning seas
of ripening maize and sunflowers
bowed by seed. Our shadows scrape
across their gold-disc sun.

(c) 2012 Slush Poet