Mimmis Bay

Reculver

Sylvia and Paul
Are enormous and near each other
But kind of as bits of landscape
In a deep Roman afternoon marble sleep
Yet underfoot
His ramp inclines robot hands
Salty and fringed with clean green moss
And Sylvias passive open eye
is a blue elliptical pool
On whose rim three underage girls
Pierce with dead give-away bamboo rods
But out at the mean low tide mark
A posed man figure
Is burying the old people in this Perspex cafe
They think hes an overgrown schoolboy
Digging the ramparts of a giant sandcastle

15th June 2000