Wrack tangles with and even wads
lower links in an airfield fence -
simple to think of a tide that swells like that
were we always as grainless
as placer deposits read from the Mull:
were this reduction not its own story.
Filiation frets itself differently
on islands, Whitsun sublet flinging
black over itself and white
on islands one of the commonest
elements is a cormorant years drafted;
now, fog intensity of repose.
We don’t recall you on Staple Island,
but a Brocken spectre and an address
on macronutrition. Silent planes
lift from or taxi at Prestwick,
kens of drift mining scatter:
not even rails, but a gradient record.
Joe Kennedy, 2012
