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Dog (no 4)

Stopped and pointed

Well, its in him to do it

Dog (no 3) mabey still has city thoughts

Although he can tell there are smells new to us here

Deer or Wild Boar

This time I didn’t get to see to tell

But resting an elbow

Better to focus binoculars

Realised this tree too was heaving in the wind

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This earth moves

This hill below bears witness

To the glaciers

It’s stones more rounded for having travelled further

Than those sharp shattered

Frost stopped angles

Those stones of Tyrella’s Drumlins

Try burying a dog there

(Nos 1 & 2) and you’ll heave up

Such smashed stone through its thin soil.

Up on top

We walk on.

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The Sea’s waves

Fat

Heavy with the Moon’s oily light

Moon glow seaside Bundoran

Ginger rimmed

Caked in winter’s corona of cloudy night

The town glows too

From above seen

The waves take on the pores

Of skin swept sea

All held firm this

Extra

Given

Night

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I can see all The Shore as my dogs bound away in grateful release

By a dune’s stump

It blasted away by a storm of eight years ago

I sit and stare south in winter’s moonlight

I know this beach

St John’s Point and its lighthouse

The Cow and the Calf

There away, another spot blinks

Cast out from the Isle of Man

Towards Newcastle’s yellow lit streets and shore

Tips of the Mourne Mountains capped with low cloud

Sweetmoon

A silver beam

Carried the shore’s length

Glittering upon each wave

There above, a brightly lit planet

Shows through the gathering clouds

You are south and tho’ this beach looks south

It’s winds now but safe gusts for summer kite surfers

You are far

Far south

I have your light and look for it

But although see planets

Rocks at sea

Lighthouses

I am still here shorebound

For something as simple as you and I

Tonight I cannot see you

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I’ve given up the shore for Hills

These Hills

At twilight the Lough glows yet red

Clutching the last of the Sun

I’ve given up The Shore for these hills

Hills yellow with furze

Coconut smelling

And birdsong trilling out

Below ribbons of streetlights

Show colour, a friendlier yellow

It’s the mounds that have it tho’

Dusky mounds of fecund blossom

Falling away making this

Spring’s snowline of bushes

Broad brushstrokes

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Neutron Star

With greenest of bright openings

Four cardinal points of fern

Push out beside the rill

From the Winter’s

Last clinging beech leaves

Drops fall

Into sharply cut waters

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