and naerrgh a mention of a seagull’s call
prologue
the fetch of uneventful league to
mingle with pier piles nonchalant;
the borderline lightbulbs strung for
decades between promenade lamp
and stack of height and white façade
of black-wrought balcony for where to stay
setting
frontage shows the way-to-look-
ing blind to what is seen amid
all the detail of hierarchy, eye
turned to what it hopes, while
rear windows, set central in
the shapèd drop, look inward
to find the fit to be; in time
the rear extension of amenity
cut fresh cross-sections of life
turned 90° deep with windows
unadorned; but then
were added storey, creating alley
to hidden access whenever
contemplating the corners
that encourage right angle
where you can serve your
down and truncating down-
pipe blind to abutted wall
perambulation
but, I’m in luck
eye caught by extractor flaps
in the foreground venting downwards
venting upwards, sun neatly off
the downpipes to the right
on the left long-painted white pipes
rusting, and between, a leafing tree
undecided which way to lean
the background, the monolith back
of the seafront hotel, conditioning
air; later, passing the backs of
houses-become-their-own-entrance,
seagulls perched at rest
on the chimneys, I caught
the tail of a reg-D Cortina with
burgundy-deep fins and round
tripartite lights, smaller
than I remember
epilogue
oh, yes and a Persian-blue
chimney stack with off-white pots
under sky-blue sky
and wisps of cloud
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
20th century wormhole: looking ahead
architecture wormhole: London refugee march – 120915
being wormhole: green and / luminant / to behold
black & blue & Have & living & passing & society & walking wormhole: Sheffield Park Gardens
burgundy wormhole: pine // gladioli // [&] wisteria
clouds wormhole: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J Redford – Working
compromise wormhole: after all
Eastbourne wormhole: city streets
eyes & life & seeing & time wormhole: 1964
history wormhole: looking / ridiculous
hotel wormhole: and // do your ears burn red?
promenade & sea wormhole: Bexhill 140215
seagull wormhole: do I
sky & white wormhole: travelling // arrival
sound & sun & windows wormhole: Lapping Reflections [Deep Within Waters] – reaping
streetlight wormhole: ‘charcoal grey-slate sky …’
Victorian houses wormhole: red / lacquer / door
walls wormhole: certainly a Captain, / but not America
waves wormhole: place
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