Fugitive images partially imagined, artificially connected

looking out from a cliff-path’s shade of sycamore’s salt-browned leaves a blue water day, fly-crawling summer itches waves winking white the slanted sails of single hulls keeled over one catamaran flat to slapping water sails

looking out from a cliff-path’s shade
of sycamore’s salt-browned leaves

a blue water day, fly-crawling summer itches

waves winking white
the slanted sails of single hulls keeled over
one catamaran flat to slapping water
sails upright

I keep thinking I see gannets
their long white wings
smoothing their flight
up, over
and along the sea’s small valleys

Sam Smith

Sam Smith is editor of The Journal magazine and publisher of Original Plus books. Author of several novels and collections of poetry, he presently lives in Blaengarw, South Wales. http://thesamsmith.webs.com