Clevedon Pier
Like a stick insect placing tentative steps
Along a testing tortilla brown twig,
The pier appeared to take hesitant strides
Into a quivering peanut brown channel,
Its fragile limbs withstanding moody tides,
Supporting visitors, seeking their heritage
And peering through gaps at muddy depths…
At its head, a rounded end was supported
By a melee, a confusing structural log jam,
A distraught pile of solid, angled wood,
An untidy, yet carefully considered tower
To thwart the murky rushes of tidal power,
As if beavers had built a considerable dam…
Pete Ray
June 2019
Clevedon’s pier was supported in the Bristol Channel by what looked like a mess of wooden stakes and logs, which could be entered for the Turner Art Prize.
The length of the pier and its ‘legs’ reminded me of a stick insect and the pile of wood at the rounded end, from whence visitors take in the views, looked like the work of beavers…
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