Who Causes Jetsam?
Gulls feed the sky
Bridled to the forepath
Wheeled eagerly by winter
Down its piebald reach
Climbing into the scream of the sun's mouth
Filing low on the blind ebb
Crowded by lightness
Of some cobwebbed speech.
Rock-burnt, shell-spoken
Crunching down the shoreline
No cascade, yet a brittle vanguard
Of scoured ages
Ebbing from the shattered castles
Tired element, apostle
Of the winds, in chaos
When the neap-tides bellow
Clam calm, untimely
Overawed, the flotsam
From the unlooked-for fleet
Washes no margin
Water of time's eye
Brimful, baptismal
Drowner of the lost, the sacred
Anchor's foothold
Contributors: | P, Roland, TG. |
Poem finished: | 26th September 1997. |