Showing posts with label my lad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label my lad. Show all posts

Monday, 16 December 2013

There and back again. UnHobbitlike.

So, Suffolk...Walberswick to Dunwich, where the sea swallowed the shore.  And back again. UnHobbitlike. No gold found. Just a hagstone.  Good luck, they say.  Oh really, I say.  
Oh whistle and I'll come to you, my lad...  
They might be giants...sand silhouettes...
A stand of trees, a stripe of shore, a slim slither of sea...
The marshes...the cry of a curlew... There is someone coming...a warning to the curious?
Slow water, lazy eels of streams.  What was that film, the one set on a canal that turns into a river that turns into the sea?  That image of the lost, beyond lonely, heading to oblivion?  
The house of brick and straw, on land barely there, broken-armed by air, level-licked by water, leans against the sky...which lets it fall.
A cross selfie - a woman of straw sans substance.