What you get

By Gub (Borth, 29th of June)

What you get …

On an beach in June in Wales 

Is a mosaic of stories 

Laid out 

wide 

Against an opaque 

Slate Sky 

Of Green and blue

marine

The sand leaks

shimmers of light

That mirror the skin

Of an Atlantic seal

And elsewhere 

Miniature feet mark

Steps that fade

With each

Hop forward; 

Seconds in life lines

That run hap hazard

In abandonment 

Of worry

Time’s face has no dial

On a beach in June in Wales.

The curve of the dolphin’s

Back rising above the rollers

Matches the zeppelin boards of a  school of surfers 

The sea swells with cries 

Of Terns, undistinguished from the yelps 

Of children’s rompings

 

The gyre and gimble

Of evolution’s tug,

back and forth 

Between land’s beckoning 

purpose

And the ineluctable 

And Eternal

Draft of the sea ….