Wednesday, 23 September 2015

from Blackwater Quartet, selection 41



The Weather Here

The tide drains down the channel to the sound,
along the mud flats of the upper creek
a string of smacks and pleasure boats aground
in stinking, gull-strewn shallows. In a week
recovered from the winter storms, from freak
winds tilting all to the absurd, we wait
where redshank skies confirm our compass fate.

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