Wednesday, 26 May 2021

A Poem a Day (432): The pier

 
This one is about a pier cutting across the water, disappearing into the distance. It could be anywhere. 


The pier
 
A narrow length of wood
carves the water in a zigzag
crawl between dusk’s brow.
It scutters into the airwaves,
motionless with nowhere to fall.
Small fences mark its depth
in metre dashes spread along,
small men waiting in line
to hold up the sky in thrall.
Clouds blow left to nether right,
skirting the silent obscured drift.
Nothing crawls in the in between,
no sounds except the cicada’s
notes and the birds full singing
as the water breathes against wood.


 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, May 26, 2021





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