Cycling to Tourlida
Cycling to Tourlida
where the land lays an arm
across the broad waters
of the languid lagoon.
The wheels crackle
over the dusty tarmac
of the unfinished road.
Overhead cables gently hum
and birds perch
like misshapen notes
in an aerial music score.
I try to whistle the tune
but the wind blows
the silent notes from my lips,
and the birds keep jumping line
and changing key.
I pass a man striding
down the causeway
with a white plastic bag
hanging from his left hand
preaching to a pack of dogs.
His hungry disciples follow,
eyeing the mysterious bag
and hanging on his every word.
Turning the road’s elbow,
land rises up ahead,
buildings emerge on the horizon.
Brightly coloured huts
sit shakily on stilts in the shallow water,
a hotel stands at the roadside;
a perfect oblong, dazzling white.
The road joins the land and carries on,
past buildings and beaches,
to where the lagoon becomes the ocean
and the road curls up into a fist
to punch the white waves back
against the solid blue sky.
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