Flatrock

August 21,  2011

(The following were written at L.M. Jackson's cottage
 in Flatrock as part of the
Newfoundland Writers Guild summer day retreat.)



                  #1
      yellow lichen stay
frothy milk waves explode high
seaweed wash flatrock

      #2
sadness rolls inside
emotional tumult building
wait for bursting wave

      #3
cling to bleak reason
as seaweed clings in wave surge
seagull lit smooth cliff

      #4
perked reality
black coffee purculating
warned boil over

     #5
griefs grey fog swirling
swallowed stones fill empty gut
search shoreline for tears

    #6
new commune living
snails thrive hidden wood horse
free from work boot crush
                                              E.B. Reid