Coastal Oupost
Here is landfall and departure,
a beginning and an end,
danger and safety. Pinnacles
and chasms challenge. Rocks
seeming impregnable are pounded.
Ogres who blackened childhood,
here petrified, face
the fury of the waves.
Stern old men and witch women
whose rigid strictures destroyed dreams
stand unprotected now.
In this hostile landscape, rocks rise
with a force equalled only
by the seas’ ceaseless crashing.
I am diminished and ennobled.
My comfort lies in fissures
where moss and fern attempt tenuous birth.
a beginning and an end,
danger and safety. Pinnacles
and chasms challenge. Rocks
seeming impregnable are pounded.
Ogres who blackened childhood,
here petrified, face
the fury of the waves.
Stern old men and witch women
whose rigid strictures destroyed dreams
stand unprotected now.
In this hostile landscape, rocks rise
with a force equalled only
by the seas’ ceaseless crashing.
I am diminished and ennobled.
My comfort lies in fissures
where moss and fern attempt tenuous birth.
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