The Penberth Rhinoceros & The Plastic Infestation
A lapping of dark water
Shoves a wedge of weed
To and fro, like a maritime metronome,
A trader tempting with its wares
Of plastic trinkets and debris,
Recycling humanity’s obnoxious greed
In Penberth’s narrow cove, flanked
By boulders, a beleaguered rhinoceros, broken,
Helpless, slumped and unaware:
Yet once a guardian, its presence now token…
Pete Ray
July 2020
A formation of boulders resembled a deflated rhinoceros on the east flank of Penberth Cove, looking sickened by the plastic waste nudged ashore, tangled within vomited weed…
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