Out of Season - Bob Beagrie
Out of Season
The sea, desperate, is trying
to snatch the legs of the Indian lady
on the slip, rearing to sweep her
out over skerries, she's
egging it on with laughter,
snapping selfies with spitting horses
trampling wild across pebble dunes
as the next wave scrabbles,
clutches, lashes her ankles,
sends her skipping toward the safe
promenade of boats resting between tides,
squawking at bleakness,
at the numbing caress of a forlorn
tragedy, old as the sea, the shrill cry
of a lone black headed gull gliding
from fret-bound turbines.
Bob Beagrie lives in Middlesbrough, UK. He has published numerous collections of poetry and several pamphlets, most recently: When We Wake We Think We’re Whalers from Eden (Stairwell Books 2021) And Then We Saw The Daughter of the Minotaur (The Black Light Engine Press 2020), Civil Insolencies (Smokestack 2019), Remnants written with Jane Burn (Knives, Forks & Spoons Press (2019), This Game of Strangers – written with Jane Burn (Wyrd Harvest Press 2017),Leasungspell (Smokestack 2016).