BOXES ON THE BEACH: A POEM TO ACCOMPANY THE JULY IMAGE FROM KIRSTY ELSON'S 2018 CALENDAR...

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…