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Low tide. The tea-stain brown of much rock stuff, below the Penny Ledges, matching that of boulders falling east from Burnt Island, leaving a thinning channel of poor depth... Above each brown, a ring of lighter stone; and then, up on the island, weak grass, indicating its height above the sea at highest, not habitability; though higher waves shall come, be sure of that. From this angle, Tins Walbert might suggest an old dwelling, let go into ruin, though what it's made of looks well kept. One's fooled by green, framed between grey and blue, rhyming with the growths of this thriving farm. [“Tins Walbert” is a day mark in the shape of a house end.] ----- Lawrence Upton Visiting Fellow, Music Dept, Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW ----