Gulls Going Home

Look !
Rippling low
through the combe
towards the amber sun,
the gulls are skeining at leisure
past the sleeping hill’s lime green,
the shade of a forest’s damp and mossy log.
At the speed of homeward afternoon cars,
they dawdle, seeking the sea,
tired, the beach their bed,
mudsafe from fox,
and the odd
meandering
dog.


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