Porth a nice word but three times is that over porthing
But watch out for big oral cavities
Cheers Patrick -old cove beating incessantly !!
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Subject: The bar between The Gugh and St Agnes seen from St Agnes
The bar is wide, the weather calmer than before.
The cove beats incessantly.
The porth's quiet.
Few of the bar looks that grey. It is fair
or pallid.
It is all whitish.
Sun's bright.
Little contrast. Detail is difficult to find .
Is this an effect of light? or of bleaching?
of other weathering? or of disturbance
bringing new stone to the bar?
And thick strands
and tangles of seaweed. At the porth edge,
some rocks are almost black with weed, and some
almost submerged by it. At the cove edge,
especially to the east, rocks, lichen brown
pile up.
Between those two darknesses
are whisperings, almost electrical
in kind and strength; smooth sand or ragged stone
which, in dazzle, could be small broken shells;
and, yet, imagine a change of eyes' angle,
observers, being seen, disclose differences.
The bend of dark weed at the full cove edge,
like to a beach turn but at tighter angle,
breaks out patchily into the white as if
black had been spat, albeit from a giant mouth.
Identify the evidence; and pause;
consider many possibilities.
Undoubtedly, closer looking dispels
the illusion of discharge. One must think so,
in lieu of a big oral cavity.
If one appears, then we must improvise.
All of us. The cowards, the wise, the brave,
the indolent, the uninvolved, ignorant,
and fools, all of me, huddled here, waiting.
The eastern coast of the porth is dark, hardly
the bar at all, part of The Gugh itself,
spotted by grey stones partly buried in growth;
and, between that and the emitted incursion,
grey stones an oddness, darker than broken
colour, all shading dimly steadily towards
the sea.
Near sands are patchily bright.
It's almost black
on each coast; but perspective dominates
and restricts the visibility.
Whiteness
fails variegated with few dark stones.
There are many small bits, which increases
a faceting of the whole. They sparkle:
probably mica's high-reflectivity.
The sands are heavily trodden; flattening; barren.
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