Mykonos by Cruise Ship - April 27, 2024

they crawl off the floating

highrise  cross a tiny plank

and fan out like ants

swarm its alleys and grey stone

thoroughfares  spreading

like blood from a bad wound

overrun shops

pick restaurants clean

surround its mountaintops 

follow a hot and sweaty

highway that circles

the island

then disappear back

into their giant nest

as the sun sets

the bones of Mykonos

picked a little cleaner

bleached a shade whiter