A wide bar with hours of flow before
submergence.
Almost the whole way over,
in dry yellowy-white sand, there’s a large S
flipped horizontally and tilted
sixty degrees clockwise, and then tipped backwards
through picture planes at the western Gugh end;
and, from here, the back-to-front base seems huge,
filling all of the land, and pushing sea
to south and thick black seaweed to the north.
The central spiral is blocked out by boulders,
mostly bleached very light, a little speckled
with brown rocks on the Perconger side, where brown
increases and darkens, almost blackening
at its soft waves’ edge except for smidgens,
creases, as between thigh and torso, Gugh side,
where the stones are few and auburn.
Bleached stones
cap the S where the bar rises to join
the land. And the waves inadvertently perform
the inverse tilted open-ended letter,
below which has been carved in basal sand
an ovoid three-dimensional cartouche
of the little f on much smaller scale.
Listen carefully to hear it, as on breath,
in the utterances of double-sided beach.
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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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