Mark Dickinson

from Shadows of the Sea

iv


'The promontory overlooking the sea has since Prehistory been a privileged place'–

Paul Virilio – Speed & Politics

                                                     I.

bursting limbs escape him
under, beside and even universal
when the occasion arose
"thinking of a place like this"
the coble rose high on the sea.

intelligible space on a root without
meaning.

if the kedge fails between the
Tees and Humber, I'll swim the last
imitating strokes.


ii.


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The codification of lemonade bubbles with refrain,
An earth in progress;  class struggles terrain

receding forest darkness, a common cap
or a further finalised extension↔on what's mine is yours

and yours-yours,  said or sung: materialise
the silos wit missing fast accumulator.