Brancaster in Autumn
1
Wind shaking the reeds,
ceaselessly weaving bright shafts,
a fence hiding – what?
2
Brief calligraphy
of foam, as the gleaming scrolls
unfurl towards me.
3
What is it, this star
that glitters from a tide pool,
darting and turning?
4
Cloudy sunset, sands
streaming with mother of pearl;
nameless, these colours.
5
Twilight and sea-mist.
Unseen geese bugle and yelp
– hairs stir on my neck.
Gillian Spraggs
An earlier version of this poem was published in The Best
of miniWORDS 1995, ed. Kevin Ryan, Charnwood Arts, 1995
© Gillian Spraggs, 1995, 2006
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