A poem about the March image from Kirsty Elson’s 2019 calendar…
The image has a pecan nut masquerading as a tree, whilst tacks/nails look like they have fallen upon the cottage roofs and also on the slipway.
I was thinking of an ancient Roman ‘ballista’ or catapult having fired heavy bolts upon the hamlet, possibly inhabited by Pecanese folks…
Hmm…
Bolts On The Hamlet…
It seems that a ballista is sited behind covering trees
During a battle between the Romans and the Pecanese…
The catapult has fired its bolts with real efficiency,
Landing upon the hamlet with unrelenting accuracy:
Onto the slipway and into the jetty boring,
Providing the posts for future mooring
And then into roofs from further attacks,
Which would surely become holes for chimney stacks…
The cottagers have certainly been brought to their knees
In the war between the Romans and the Pecanese…
Pete Ray
February 2019
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