THROUGH THE GAP: A MOUSEHOLE SUNRISE... (FROM CLARE BOWEN'S PAINTING...)

 Through The Gap: A Mousehole Sunrise…

(from Clare Bowen’s Mousehole Harbour painting…)

No winter baulks clasp

Mousehole’s harbour arms in defiance

Of winter’s rage,

Whilst an invasive burning sunrise

With its florid glint

Envelops an idling vessel’s hull

And a cold tide worries at tethered boats

Within the quay’s dank and granite walls…

Coastline hunches and gasps,

Its undulations dark in defiance

Of morning’s rage,

Whilst belching slate grey clouds rise,

Billow, writhe and hint

Of an impending storm to cull:

And the gaseous, fiery, flickering throat

Of flame threatens, yet with awe enthrals…

Pete Ray

28th January 2021

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