THREE SAILBOATS: FROM KIRSTY ELSON'S ARTWORK...

Three Sailboats

(from Kirsty Elson’s 2020 calendar: the June image…)

Three hulls with sails a-bristling

And brushing a favourable breeze

Sit proud alongside a small lugger,

Where work and leisure mingle,

Before they return to similar quays

For mooring berths a-jostling;

And avid sunlight will daub its arresting 

Hues upon the vessels’ liveries,

As they lean, redundant in mud and shingle… 

Three hulls with sails a-glistening

Are hustling in variable breeze

And stir alongside each other,

Where Christmas lights for leisure mingle;

Three boats tethered in Mousehole’s quay

Upon invasive tides a-tossing;

And dark nights will glow with arresting

Hues upon the harbour’s reveries,

As eyes gleam and shivering senses tingle…

Pete Ray

May 2020  

Comparing Kirsty Elson’s fine boats with those which adorn Mousehole’s harbour during the Christmas Lights period…