I like the details about the gulls, especially, as situational perceptions, Lawrence.
Doug
On 2011-12-06, at 10:46 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> This neck, as of an old now dead chicken,
> stretching across to The Gugh from Agnes;
> dark patches on the body quite low down;
> chitinous junk up near where the head should be.
>
> Not the first time one’s seen a corpse shown here;
> but this is the most ludicrous. Years back,
> a porpoise lay dead, not quite at The Gugh.
> A true body, torn open flesh, staling.
>
> Maybe it had been stranded there, gone off
> before high tide; or else had died at sea,
> between the two islands perhaps; carried
> lifeless right up on the new stony beach,
> at a middle point from Perconger to The Cove
>
> while their waters drained from out under it.
> Oddly, the gulls did not feed long. They seemed
> bewildered, standing about on wire legs,
> heads tilting like angle-poise lights, hesitant;
> and it decomposed; while quick fly grubs multiplied.
>
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