Windmill-shoulder precipices
spinning gannet eggs on tangled
wildgrass snares, harbour bells booming and anchors
breaking spray beneath the bellows of bull-shark horns
Pounding sails, roaring blades slitting skies driving cogs
exoskeletons crushed by bitter beaks, stinging seawater
stoking wounds in lips and scales
on tongues blander than clouds, edged knife-like like blood
and brine which wind the windings of the tongue the same way, salt
in cuts smarting, stonefish, urchins, iodine easing pain through cracks in
skin and seagulls sliding, the twang of wires slipping through the
thrumming feathers of birds bumping against the empty skin
stretched across my window, a brief pretence of blue.

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