Today's Sailings between Jersey and Sark are cancelled

 

If inadequately tied, fixed, fastened or pinned

Everything becomes airborne, flails, flaps, and thrashes.

Nascent leaves released like confetti whirl along the Bay road,

Chase the broken heads of long-stemmed narcissus 

That surrender their honey scents to the persistent gale.

 

My sister and I, at breakfast in a Jersey hotel,

Feel the waves thud against the sea wall, then overtop and flood.

The spray shimmers with salt and milky froth laced with iodine.

We watch, half in dread, half in helpless laughter,

As Herring gulls, flung towards the glass, somehow lift and veer. 

 

Barbara Grafton

Wind challenge

 

Image:

Montage by Barbara Grafton using Herring gull photograph by Rob Hille via Wikimedia