#1984 - in a child’s tub, earth’s end

 

1984

6.158

7.vi.25

in a child’s tub, earth’s end

ekphrastic for an untitled sketch of Eiríkur Smith’s

 

harbour sketching

for this always weather

 

lines stood

heroics for the net, the hook

 

everything leans to wind

reminds us of a dying down

 

there’s to and fro

the living sea

 

gulls sweep

though not words for

 

bottle top bobbing

cork’s throw

 

the boats

like fish washed up