always
april 2010

always you return
from the hills
to the sea
the sand
the broken shell
between
always the waves
pluck and dully
gather falling
the length
of breath
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always
april 2010
always you return
from the hills
to the sea
the sand
the broken shell
between
always the waves
pluck and dully
gather falling
the length
of breath
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burning on
29 october 2014
Thames
the sky was
grey and low
the smoke was
of the sky
the flames of the
garden fire burning
were richly of
the earth
the woman was
tidying up the garden
gathering up gloved
armfuls of dry
branch the cat
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name
to Frank Le Baige
2016, revised december 2021
how many of us
have tried
to scratch
our names
in the nothing
that lasted…
on that beach,
in the sandstone
cliff that outcrops
on piled shell,
where the
sedimentary
strata arch over
a hollow,
hollower then,
though hardly
a cave, a spot
i’ve known
since childhood,
it’s there i’ll
look with eye
and finger for my
brother’s name
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