16 July 2020

Poetry Thursday - Still Life with Sea Pinks and High Tide by Maura Dooley

What joy to be reunited with Poetry on the Underground! This was spotted on the Overground, on the two-stop journey home from Gospel Oak after an uphill amble to Kenwood, the cafe, and a coffee in the garden.


Still Life with Sea Pinks and High Tide

Thrift grows tenacious at the tide’s reach.
What is that reach when the water
is rising, rising?
Our melting, shifting, liquid world won’t wait
for manifesto or mandate, each
warning a reckoning.
Ice in our gin or vodka chirrups and squeaks
dissolving in the hot, still air
of talking, talking.

Maura Dooley (b.1963)

Hear it read here.

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