The Stern...
(Kirsty Elson’s April image from her 2019 calendar…)
Like a medical stitch, a flitting gull seems
To be sewing a rooftop repair
Upon the exposed rafters’ rent seams,
Whilst the misty spectre of a fisherman’s wife
Slips through the white house door
And an abstract figure with his rat catching cat
Lurks on the threshold of the lighthouse door…
All three buildings huddle, it seems,
Upon a flat vessel’s long, gnarled stern
And the screw-top lighthouse spews its regular beams
Down upon a horn-piping, jigging sea-sprite, astern…
Pete Ray
March 2019
The gull looks like a stitch, the damaged paintwork on the doors of the white house and the lighthouse could be figures and the quay looks rather like a low vessel against the backdrop of a dark blue sky, or stormy sea.
A strange figure appears to be dancing a jig next to the lighthouse but again it is simply damage to the wood…
Good to imagine though…
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