Baulking, Bunching…
Beached, vessels’ gunwales carelessly loll,
Like bathers but not quite beauties;
Hulls bunched, hardly in line,
As they await high-tide and a resumption of duties…
Lurched, vessels creak, masts drum,
Like protectors of the harsh shore, baulking;
Hulls hunched, comically in line,
As if awaiting the dreaded resumption of caulking…
Pete Ray
December 2016
Another old Michael Ellis image…
The vessels look almost like rather plump Victorian ‘bathing beauties’…
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