My Sand Life, My Pebble Life: A Memoir of a Childhood and the Sea by Ian McMillan

Author:Ian McMillan [McMillan, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Figures, Personal Memoirs, Travel, Europe, Great Britain, nature, Ecosystems & Habitats, Coastal Regions & Shorelines, Essays & Travelogues
ISBN: 9781472982957
Google: Tm1NEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2022-06-09T21:55:30+00:00

GOING TO EXTREMES: NORTH

The sandals and the socks against the tide,

The Simmer Dim as hesitating light,

This morning holding hands with late last night.

Life’s first long draft, with later drafts implied:

The beach invites the waves out for a ride.

My sandals and my socks give up the fight,

Succumb to dampness. Grinning with delight

I squelch across The Great Northern Outside.

This slice of year pushes horizons back

Until they touch each other in the sky

In pencil lines across an empty sheet;

Midsummer hands me something that I lack:

As sense of movement, seabirds wheeling by.

The day has turned. Now time to dry my feet.

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