Organised by

Guernsey Literary Festival

Sponsored by

Specsavers

Supported by

Guernsey Arts

Gabriel Griffin, Italy

2nd prize: Open Poetry
Poems on the Move & Poems on the Buses Exhibitions

gabrielgriffinpoet.com

Spiders

I didn’t know but read somewhere that swifts hunting sky’s oceans catch not only all winged insects – and, bless them, mosquitoes – but also hosts of spiders engaged in sailing the airways on silken threads, their frail crafts blown by vagrant winds and no return to Ithaca.