Tuesday, 8 February 2022

high on estuarine

 high on estuarine 


that long wait upon the tide’s slow breath

until the blush mottles the cadaver night

and the ghouls hoot ‘return them soon’

we stand transfixed as today whispers

that yesterday also whispered in 

the turn of the tide’s mud pack

when the moon in all its beauty falls

cold upon the castle walls and the calls

of the owls hooting in the stark trees 

where not a breath of the wind’s call

disturbs the night slide of the sea 

back there beyond the black point

tread carefully now for

the salt marsh is stilled by wet

and the things that shine are not stilled

the mood moves everything until

well you know how it is 

enough said about the thoughts

gathering at your hearth’s comfort

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