Okay, I do wish I were there (although Lake Winnipeg was good, too).
Doug
On 2012-08-07, at 8:02 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Beach Views
> (West St Kilda, Port Phillip Bay)
>
> The lunch we had
> looking towards the beach
> I shan't describe -
>
> it'd have you
> salivating
> at your keyboard.
>
> The view we had
> was worth the hour -
> a wide clean strand,
>
> a waveless low tide,
> a cluster of pleasure craft
> moored in the lee of the pier;
>
> cafe patrons on the decking,
> kids and dogs running
> dancing prancing wrestling.
>
> We pay and leave, pick up
> leaflets from the board-sports
> shop that shares the pavilion.
>
> Back home, I search their site
> (What sports are you into?
> Kiteboarding Windsurfing
>
> Stand Up Paddle, Skate/Scoot):
> they have a webcam
> trained on the beach
>
> twentyfour-seven! panning
> slowly left, right, back. What's
> on it now? the view we had -
>
> with strollers at dusk now,
> lights coming on far over
> at Williamstown
>
> and on the West Gate Bridge;
> a light cloud cover,
> on the bay horizon
>
> a strip of golden light.
> Next morning a tractor
> sifting the wide strand.
>
> Views we now have
> twentyfour-seven.
>
Douglas Barbour
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Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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