Pea Fields in July (Etheree)

Swallows weave and twist like mad acrobats
Flying around the English steeples
Swooping down and skimming pea fields.
Their feeding frenzy lingers,
Choosing juicy insects
Upon the coastal breeze
Soon, an urgent call -
Ancestral bones;
Africa
Calls them
Home.

M. Moran
13.7.15

Etheree, created about twenty years ago by an Arkansas poet named Etheree Taylor Armstrong, this titled form, the Etheree, consists of ten lines of unmetered and unrhymed verse, the first line having one syllable, each succeeding line adding a syllable, with the total syllable count being fifty-five.This concise form is meant to focus on one idea or subject.