Boxes On the Beach…
(From Kirsty Elson’s Calendar, the July Image…)
It seemed that bathers
Had been flocked into poultry coops
In antiquity,
For the huts had seen better days,
Certainly;
Balanced upon screws above a gentle tide,
The changing facilities appear shabby in their beauty,
Access steps diverse in their
Regularity;
Dull hues touched sharp by the English Riviera sun,
Creating a parched, flaking, redundant chicken run…
Yet you want to peek inside,
Breathe in the damp, ageing wood and
Sweep at beetles, or spiders
Flailing helpless in scoops of shaken off sand…
Pete Ray
June 2018
A poem to accompany Kirsty Elson’s July image from her 2018 calendar…
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