iv.

Littoral beach and comb
Litter swells between shells
Cast upon the near – foam
Shelves its pattern then delves
Into the patter of a pool;
Shells-be-spell – into a process,
Into an unmade made & jewel
Into the transitory press
Of a cellular caress of move –
Then movement on the drift.

In Tide & circular both rest & rove
Are slackening: O' how they rift
Within their roving, shells-be-spatter
And mark a making out of time. 

No matter may mend only scatter;
Which lymph's upon the mime
A rampart. A fixation to better.
But trust is upon, word to the contrary
Fettered to an error
That silos in a sea of memory.

 

viii

Sinistral or swirl and pattern

dextral as highly prized non-

terrestrial movement over bed-

rock layer upon fixture as at tide line

slack beneath makes slow towards

green belt fringe over rock

minority feeler amongst

dwelling amongst rock-ling & peeler

Copyright © Mark Dickinson, 2004.