Hi Mike,
This is good as it is. However, I'd like to have more sense of place and am 
tantalised by what Gulf this might be.



bw
James





>From: Mike Horwood <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: The rock
>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:02:18 +0300
>
>The Rock
>
>The thing itself is cold and wet, and slippery
>as a sentence written in shifting sands,
>yet here it stands where it has always stood,
>firm against the flood, the storm, the tide.
>
>The bruise on my stubbed toe forbids all doubt
>about the firmness of the foundation Iīve chosen
>as I scrabble to the summit of my rock,
>my window on the world, with me on top.
>
>And though the elevationīs not so high,
>my view not wide, yet the wind is
>on my face and the streaked grey clouds
>form a marbled vault. Across the Gulf
>a mirage city rises from the waves,
>like my slippery rock from these shifting sands.
>
>
>
>Mike

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