Clodgy Point
At Clodgy Point when rain started,
grey rock darkened where I waited,
waiting for seals in wind rough sea,
watching the eight on a cliff path,
as if to wish might make it so,
if all were possible with faith.
Slowly larger in the weather,
talking in wind to each other,
in poor light they could not spot seals
or sense my wish in a fresh storm.
There was only a small boat’s sails
off the headland, moving for home.
When we met, our words wrapped in wind,
I turned with them, leaving behind
what might have looked like idleness
at Clodgy Point. We walked, the nine,
in front of rain and the wind’s nose,
back to ourselves, a huddled town.
The seals elsewhere, much like my life,
in waters much calmer then, safe
in their own movement, stayed unseen.
Against the breathing pier, sails furled,
a boat fidgetted in thrown rain.
Clodgy’s rocks vanished in the cold.
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