Defences

Gull luring a reef rip

and the intestines of the green-bobbing carcase that fractures land

make the slit of waves mind the violent cargo

of flooded wrapped fierce and yet folded

into this spilled sprawl frothing only out the mouth upon the tongue of

those ageing pummelled shelves

why skulking mounts amongst stilled fiction

of puddled lights that skim the shredded skin are still

just bruised and pebbled migrant ciss-crossing the rasp

of shadows merging groan this scaled ink slink

unravelling the invisibility point of dusk flushed

by rain-tipped sweeping to the

strumming of flailed rusting gnarl of barbed

scattered storm's web

inside the shingled overlapping

retreat to the speckled craw

tightening its tallons of night

that fence of sisyphean stuckism

where well versed footprints that curve the light

are lost to the funereal abstract of yesterday