Monday, January 10, 2022

Through the dune


 

The path to the sea:

a history of

ghostal footfall

shortcutting

through the marram.

Impatient children

glimpsed the sea

and headstrong, headlong,

breached the defence -

bleeding the beach

through the dune.

The punctured grasses

step aside

under the assault

and noisy charge

of adventurers,

buccaneers,

pirates

or home-guard defenders

in their theatre

of imagination.

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