Water Impression
Blue yawl
Screwing through
Into patches
Of blotch-coloured
Mysterious sea,
Because overhead
Masking clouds
Blot sun
Out.
Come down through
Thinning copse
To a built-up shingle
Where
Among warmer seasons
Children discover
Ocean-animals
Tough strapweed
Pick buckets
Of carted
Beach-carpet sand
Up to a rubbery
Lip of elastic surf.
Coughing phlegm
From kiln-smoked lungs
I invent crab.
Labrador lurching
Stickward into wind’s
Muscle. Walkout
On old barking winter.
Talking of
Other lover’s gradients,
Their tide-swallowed
Castles
Salted, sound-drenched
Spume-breakers sift
Semi-preserved
Ghosts
Thrown down along
The shoreline
Of the pier-pricked
Covelet.
You, imagined
As an unpainted
Figurine, white
In the even numbered
Watercolour seascape
Pressed by its own
Wind.
Winter,
A speck of spring
In its eye,
Blinks.
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