On Newcastle Beach
The light was sharp, so sharp each wave’s wavelets which,
cresting
before the lilac foam, threw their own shadow, an odd thing
but once noticed
was realised to be everywhere; the coarse sinews of sea
grasses on the bank
bowed to their individual casts, and probably, if we’d crouched
low enough,
the very single grains of sand would have their cubic dark,
elongated
and slightly to one side.
Rocks were hefted there, rolled smooth and pronounced
magical as dinosaur eggs, but not as magical as the frog
found dead above the tideline.
This frog was perfectly yellowish green and splayed, exposed
and belly up,
its expression in death unseen; the bulging eyes and rigid
gape could only be assumed
to be unchanged by death. It was a strange freshwater anomaly
on that shore,
an intruder more bizarre than any washed up bones or worn
fragments
of cheap crockery. We
left it there unturned, uncouth and other, let the gulls feast
on its sad remains, we departed, sliding back against the
wind, along the bright and rustling strand.
really nice!
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