A tuft of sand and isolated rock
on each side of a small tidal conflict;
contending inflowing waves intrude upon
the missing bar from both Perconger and The Cove
balancing asynchronously, and seen
from this height as a swollen stretching line
billowing into The Cove; this bulging curve,
sustained by being renewed constantly, shimmers;
new incomers bustle into it
from behind from the north no longer blocked
by the overwhelmed neck and deposed sediment;
and wash comes also from the south, invisible,
as such, until some portion of it breaks through
and makes a rolling disintegrating lope.
At The Gugh end of the absence unbalanced
surging breakers clash and tangle themselves
a jamming zip still joining separating fabrics.
Dogs race upon a ledge of sand. They seem
delighted to panic as water deepens; flit back.
A human scolds each wet return loudly
with compound sentences.
Reconciliations
of two natures in one physical layer, while
inevitable unreconciled hydrological forces
of an earlier collision send ripple lines away
from each other; creases and pleats beyond
gatherings; limbs and muscles beneath coverings;
participants in a formalised dance
moving as from their earlier encounters,
as sun moon and planets move round about
each other, both free and restrained.
It looks as though the water in the south
is higher than the water in the north.
Yet it’s pushed back. Perconger’s concave arc
into The Cove subsides as rising tide
extends its rising, leaving an uproar
over the notional now watery tombolo
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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