On 5 Aug 2014, at 8:13 pm, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Beach Detection
>
> In pale half-dawn the pot-bellied shorts wearer
> sweeps, sweeps, seeks what lies beneath,
>
> doing the disc wave, knapsack-backed,
> furlined headphones enclamped,
>
> covering territory at a hover, pausing now
> to scrape unhurriedly before replacing
>
> sand divots. Soon, surely, all these
> healthy mornings must pay off.
>
> bw
Yeah, Bill, I too have seen these,
and not only in Australia.
What do they ever find?
Lost jewellery?
(maybe there’s already been a pay off,
which keeps the guy at it.
Have you priced the rental on the metal detectors?)
Max
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