Antony Dunn
Antony
Twinned with Bénodet
As if the sea had gathered itself up
and plonked me on the sand like a statue,
bragging, Look at that! What a piece of work!
Jewelled with sun-drops, gowned in the taste of salt...
And a piece of work I was, porpoising
around the rocks and their cairn of my clothes,
breast-stroking in till pebbles scratched my chest
for the big effect at the standing up.
Yes, you should have seen my calves, carved in bronze,
all the muscles rolling like stones in slings —
and me in my best pants. Would have slayed you.
But that day was the day before we met.
And when you took your legendary step
from your car into this cliff-top village,
your hair alive in wind-hiss from the sea,
I felt the tongue turn to stone in my head,
and the name-plaques fixed as memorials
at the head and the foot of the one street,
the tide of you sorting the stone of me
to sand, ticking all time away, grain by grain.
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