Peter Redgrove
Sea Visit
The seagull’s mew
opens a door in the air;
lovemaking opens a new room
In the bedroom;
that plump copy of Dune
simply because I bought it there
With its four hundred pages
doors and windows, includes
the entire volume called Boscastle,
A door that was shut on it
swings open,
a door large as the whole room,
Large as a season of the year,
renewed in any season
by hearing unpredictably
That airborne throaty gull-call;
the sea itself
brings its gold-irised eyes
To strut on the sill,
its shelly beak,
its white and grey
Plumage of the waves:
for the sea flies on its feathers
and with herring-breath
Out of the sea,
pauses to mew,
opening in everything
The sea’s pages.
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