Mousehole: Theatre At Dawn
(from Clare Bowen’s painting…)
The dawn’s new footlights
Illuminate the distant sky
A weak, insipid peach;
A sinister, dull grey threat
Of low cloud hovers eastward
Like a heavy safety curtain
On a sunrise seascape theatre set,
Its captive Mousehole audience to beseech…
The backdrop, scarred pink
To cream, dazzles the view
And at centre-stage, serene
Is St Clement’s Isle, slightly awry,
Riding the tide westward
Like Newlyn trawlers, uncertain.
And gulls in the pit strike up a cry,
An overture for the day’s first act and scene…
Pete Ray
A fine view of the sunrise, rather like a theatre stage, painted in Mousehole by Clare Bowen…
Images too from the Old Coastguard Hotel in
Mousehole, the sunrise appearing almost like a theatre set.
Memorable.
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