Razor-shell wastes, spring-tides' old strewage, crunch;
lines of dried, felty seaweed, beiged as sand
lead down to waves, froth-busy with the wind.
Lean against an old blockhouse to eat lunch.The iron ribs of pipes within concrete,
time, salty-tide and wind conspire to pick;
though in doom's gullet stubborn bones might stick,
long decades lodged, digestion to complete.Some shells are much more delicate, it's true,
their innards rarely left to elements;
grave robbers come with vans and license too -
and who knows now exactly what was meantwhen lives append their meanings to get by,
until all purposes take wing and fly....................
It's a hybrid sonnet. I seem to like to mix the forms a little.
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The Singing Season
PuisiThe Singing Season. That's the spring-time. You'll also like other MajorSeventh poetry collections - and there are so many to choose from.