Come Away She Said
… and I did, to the Logan Stone at
Porthcurno's indigo bay, swept
clean by the busy Atlantic, to find
her on the stage under Minack
Theatre stars, speaking of sharing
a world with wine and paintings;
to the isolation of Rame Peninsula,
where she said we were the only
people left alive; to the higgledy-piggledy
Polperro streets, where we lived in a
house on stilts, roamed the shadowy
wooded valley and counted the blacks,
silvers and blues in the harbour. We
drifted the Lerryn Creek, through the
water-meadows to the spire at Lostwithiel
Church, where we never married.
I crawled to find her under Heligan's
blanket of brambles, lost myself in
the jungle, sought romance in the
Italian garden. I heard her voice echo
through the white yachts at Carrick Roads,
the towering magnolias of Trelissick.
Come away she said,
to the mists settling on the Manacle Rocks,
where she would guide me to the ocean
bed. Hazed in blue and unprepared, I fell
against the serpentine cathedral walls
and cracked a water-drilled nugget to
the footprint sands. When it split, an inner
fossil contoured against the evening air.
It was then that I traced the outline of
her heart, so cold against my bloody hands.
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