Tuesday, 2 April 2019

Cockle Gatherer


 

I will not be a sea wife,
nor wait with my back
to the land for the tide
to turn you round to the quay,

but, tide after tide,
I will drag my rake
through these wet sands
where the hiss of shells,

their blow of flesh
on the tide’s creep,
trails me up from
the shore to the house.

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