'ELEPHANT HEAD: PORTH CHAPEL, ST LEVAN'... A POEM.

Elephant Head: Porth Chapel, St Levan

Its massive torso had fallen, helpless,

Causing a minor eruption at the cliff-face: a fissure

And its sluggish trunk had swathed at the tide,

Whipping up the current

To a cauldron of abuse,

Rendering sunken boulders tumbling loose,

To rumble into the cove below,

Piling up on once flat, sodden sand

And interrupting a turquoise ocean’s merciless flow.

But its gigantic head lay crestfallen, hopeless…

Pete Ray

The lower cliff path to Porth Chapel’s stunning beach was closed, due to falling rocks I presume but the Porthcurno side of the cove, a mass of rock, reminded me of an elephant, lying still, which gave me the idea...