Excerpt from:
Longshore Drift
(Jardine Press 2005)
Out there, the sea: a sheet
Of tin-foil, shaken out,A boiling, pewter-grey,
Copper-tinged alloy;A growl, a snarl, a frown.
It darkens like a stain,White-veined, white fretted, brown
And snagged with angry light;It glitters in the bright
Spilt metal of the sun.
Katrina Porteous