Thoughts bustle pure still
city remembering waves remembering the way
unmoved long ago remembering the busy sky
fulmars smash centre fly clear the cross-
leaved spray jagged common sensuous gull
sandpiper transplanted summer's only home
spring just happiness away promising
astral harbours touched portals redshank
still-backed golden knapweed wrack heather
down stream squill godwit dawn
on the beach again, waveburst, wave after tremor,
mercury lustre, still cool, head towards sun, set,
she haunts, shuffles, I spiral around,
crisp fine cotton, shadow children,
orphans everywhere
rogation, slovenly pullover, foxglove, clover,
by the canal, errant heron,
in the fields, picking chickens, fawning
calves, leatherette, roll over,
all over
now
~ ~ ~
This brand
new
airy
high
class
department store
has so much
free
space –
enough
for a hundred
people
to live in