Sunday 14 October 2012

B is for... Beached

This is the first draft of a poem I'd like to work up into something more structured... we'll see. Any comments welcomed!

Beached



Jellyfish cornered or elastic catheter -
I flinch and retreat,
Tie discovered rope with new knots
To seal a coast.
Ineffective SOS, just bottle tops
Spread helpless in a name.
Sheared plastic erodes into stones
And winks. It tickles the gullet and sticks.
Funereal beach pockmarked with salted gems;
I pick up a ruby; it is a clone that fools.
Washing up is filth, crude bubbles
Inversely proportional, unnatural to the hand.
The vortex is a full, leaking Texas.
Polystyrene freckles advance  from Japan.

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