CORMORANT ON CUTHBERT'S ISLAND

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golden light bathes you round

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golden light bathes you round

full-bellied fisher in

sleek feathered reef knot

A few metres' walk across rock pools and mussel beds takes you to Cuthbert's Island. You can only get there at low tide. Watch for the heron. He'll come to fish as the shallows deepen, clockwork warning of the turning of the tide. It can cut you off. If seals break water on the outer channel, catching you in a dark moon eye, then you most need to stay, but you can't.

Evening light fits the cove rock, a mouthful of gold. Cormorant bathes in amber, deeply still, head under wing.

You, freeze, trying to stop a moment flowing by.

Or don't freeze.

Live it.

Then turn. Face the Holy Island. Wade back.

Pray, Work..

December 12, 2014

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December 12, 2014

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