I like this one a lot, Lawrence. Thanks! Andrew
On 3 October 2011 15:25, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Two gulls paddle, fishing in the southern end
> of Perconger. The water is deep mauve, with sharp whiteness
> on the low waves’ edges on which these birds
> go unperturbedly.
> A half-circle
> of brown stones, flecked with smaller orange stones
> and ginger ones, overlays the centre of
> the northern side of the short tombolo,
> the middle height sandy; west, green thick weed
> partially overlying itself. And west,
> further, a wedge of grey stones, a damp course
> of green weed, and, below, a thick stratum
> of grey stones. The rest, sand. Nothing beside
> remains! and tomorrow it will be different.
> West by North of the brown, that brown is cut
> into darker and deeper weed, a marsh
> made treacherous by submerged stone in heaps.
> Two divers splash together in the north
> of The Cove, a sexual couple, bonding
> by play.
> Boats, with sails furled.
> Empty sea,
> perhaps all the way to Iberia.
> The Bar’s Cove shore, south, is grey, right along,
> hard grey crowds in curves like drapes.
> Piled stones.
> Pointless towers
> patterning sane disorder.
>
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Andrew
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