Author’s sketch, inspired by a sculpture unearthed at the Ġgantija megalithic temple complex, Gozo

His home on his back
He travels slow
From Cape Maclear
     To Karakol

A parasite
He paid his way
Through the Cuilfail Tunnel
     And far away

The Lord of the Snails
        He leaves his trail:
The Milky Way
O’er Kilifi Bay

[Roy Duffield’s travels have taken him through over 100 countries and his poetry has recently appeared in The Journal of Wild Culture, Marble Poetry, The Dawntreader, Jalada Africa, Failed Haiku, and The Trouvaille Review.]