
clearly
we woke to foghorns
loud and insistent in the channel.
much too loud I observed
and the possibility of quiet horns
opened up silently.
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christmas island, 1957
looking out over the water men reported the sky alight with catherine wheels sea birds in fact ignited by the heat thrown skywards by the pulse
Steve Shepherd writes poems and takes photographs. He used to make radio programmes, mostly jazz.