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Imogen Davies

Starlings Flit from Lobster Pots 

 

Starlings flit from lobster pots
The harbour – a nest
Of buoys and nets –
A breath –
To the beat of boats
And wings –
Sun and sea sing –
Salt clear notes – blue
Chasing dawn’s dissolving hue –
Hulls bead and dimple dew
Over paint that flakes in scales –
While rigging quivers for sails –
Fishermen crouch – hunch –
Gravel crunch –
Releasing the rattle roll of garage doors –
To workshop wood silence and open tool draws –
They crack – stack empty crates
Next to full white tubs of bate –
Scattering a flutter of shadows in their wake –
Starlings flit from lobster pots –
A school of fish that shimmers – sways –
Through the creasing tide of water’s day –

 

Overripe

 

In chest – bruised fruit
-severed – stooped-
Aching shapelessness
To rise ‘round blind touch –
Blighted bitter by time’s tread –
Mottled by words unsaid –
In chest – bruised fruit –
Bowed branch spine
As I pine because
You were never mine –
never mine – never mine
Never mind

Imogen Davies is a 21-year-old Welsh writer studying French, Spanish, and Catalan at university. Away from Aberystwyth, her hometown, she is exploring Barcelona as a British Council English Language Assistant. Her poetry has appeared in Aberystwyth’s Ego Magazine, Abergavenny Small Press and Streetcake, with a short story published by Litro.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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