Spot him if you can The man in the red pullover Strolling along the sand He’s the universal walker At home in every land So cool he walks alone With no one by his hand Maybe he has a dog But he doesn’t let that show He’s not in any hurry Got no particular place […]

I should not have been left there tiny fingers exploring the air like some sea creature amazed by an invading tide: its brilliant cold enormity. My eyes, blue milk, made out little more than rocks and weed. Her face remained indistinct: she twirled a finger in the pool, stared a while, then headed off along […]

For fourteen days, we stayed above the bay in the holiday house at the top of the hill. Every day we ate from cans, re-read old magazines, occasionally spoke to one another, but never about why we could not leave the house. Some questions were never asked. Often we could hear the waves and imagined […]

Le Blé en Herbe (‘The Awakening’) by Colette It seems I read all summer, tanned feet stretched, levellers on hot ruffs of rock. I sought a coast I’d never met, greeted the far start of the sea: the sun fused me to its scent. My toes quarried scorched sand, rough grass punctured my soles, sea-snails […]

The Dead Sea is shrinking at a rate of around 3 metres per year It’s impossible to drown in the Dead Sea now though not on account of the salt content, where our sea-level’s rising due to climate change, there, it’s downsizing, & whilst it’s claimed water always finds the lowest point first, here at […]

The sea ambivalent to my curses runs a hush along the shore to quieten my thoughts. You sit like an outcrop for the cormorants in the Irish Sea where a fishing boat cuts irs motor and floats. And what if you are my destiny? My crazy mixed up fate that will disappear as the mountains […]