Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Above The Tide





The lonesome cries of waders and sea-birds
from unknowable perches
in the dense darkness of night
come inland.
Souls, wanderers of the wilderness
between heaven and earth,
calling from their purgatories of not knowing
above the tide’s mournful washing.


And the beacon lights
with the eyes of starved animals,
flashing out from between jagged rocks
on the far coastline
where shipwrecks have happened
or they wait for them to happen,
whipping darkness into mesmerising circles
over the tide’s mournful washing.

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