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This is a lovely piece, Lawrence, and draws one to what you paint for us here (I agree with Chris - Hi, Chris!). Thank you! Sheila On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I hesitate to say this, but, I am finding these very English in a good > way, or perhaps a way I like. I haven't seen this coast but find myself > wanting to go... is this south west coast?? Maybe, I could make it there, > but not now. But I searched and found some photos. > > > On 19/05/12 04:32, Lawrence Upton wrote: > >> The bulky slip for the revenuer's boat, >> here still, unused for its purpose now, steep, >> with a more salubrious paved landing place >> out to the left, a boat on there, angled. >> >> An extensive tumble of rock, weed-blackened, >> up to the height of another boat, on grass, >> upon a trolley, an inflatable, >> and then there's overgrowth of dense bramble >> right to the top of what is visible here. >> >> A concrete quay, atop and round the old, >> white markings for hoi polloi; and steel posts >> for chains to control crowds; parcels; packets >> to be collected; plastic sheets and sacks >> of various forms; all most tidily clean >> in a way suggesting work's getting done >> and life is being lived with good effort. >> >> A slightly rippling sea through burnishing light, >> scatterings of markers upon its moving shine, >> tethered rowing boats in scintillation >> up to the shrinking tombolo. >> Columns >> of Scilly Whites near to The Gugh coast edge, >> cultivated plots outweighted by noise >> from others which have self-planted for years >> of being untended, unstraightened, left. >> >> >> [Scilly Whites are a type of daffodil] >> >> >> ----- >> Lawrence Upton >> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept, >> Goldsmiths, University of London >> New Cross, London SE14 6NW >> ---- >> >>