IN STAITHES
Washing day wind whips
Hair into clouds
breath from cheeks
Rusty leaves tossed into sky
Blue water laps nervously
Far below a path
Taken by gawkers
Past cloistered roofs and rotting door
Lobster pots catch the eye as
Villagers glumly spy from mullions
See saw creaking
Flagpole snapping
Breezy eddy in tight corners
Round last summer blooms
Window boxing for the sun
Warmed brick and licked cobble
Gull spotted and grey
Light splinters from
Green splashes waving
Sparkles to glittering schist
An arm thrown down
To resist the pounding sea
Round a sugar bowl bay
Cubed white cottages spooned
Down the cliffs
Effecting a postcard sweetness
In sips of salt air
Hair into clouds
breath from cheeks
Rusty leaves tossed into sky
Blue water laps nervously
Far below a path
Taken by gawkers
Past cloistered roofs and rotting door
Lobster pots catch the eye as
Villagers glumly spy from mullions
See saw creaking
Flagpole snapping
Breezy eddy in tight corners
Round last summer blooms
Window boxing for the sun
Warmed brick and licked cobble
Gull spotted and grey
Light splinters from
Green splashes waving
Sparkles to glittering schist
An arm thrown down
To resist the pounding sea
Round a sugar bowl bay
Cubed white cottages spooned
Down the cliffs
Effecting a postcard sweetness
In sips of salt air