The Seaside Music Of Postponing Rocks
Christopher Barnes, UK
Walks in sixths, toeing tips of gullies
is a bird across the crisp
diadem of ocean,
slap-dash irruption.
Waves wet into wet, rolling
grayer than sky, taps turned on
(asphodel sand
caught in the sun’s thumb-thrumb
strum)
wavering through lighthouses
incondite shivers flashing – inklings
darkling middles, chords
flaking
flaking...