readier to roll about
than to drag seal-bulk
shingle-crunch climbing
the beach’s skirts
haul and lay their mass
press on the pebble bed
a bay’s broad outscouring
they bask the lull
when a pair of helpless eyes
pitch-bright in bristled snout
ratchets round in meeting
yours with sea-thoughts
Martin Potter (https://martinpotterpoet.home.blog) is a British-Colombian poet and academic, based in Manchester, and his poems have appeared in Acumen, The French Literary Review, Eborakon, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Poetry Village, and other journals. His pamphlet In the Particular was published in 2017.
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