The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1933
Seascape
Seascape
swish
of swirling water
near at band
and boom
from rock and breaker crashing
a sudden light
from rising spray
that smothers rocks and reefs and then
voluptuously
descends in rippling trickles down their sides
a sky
of sombre grey
a wind
that furls the ocean's fretted surface
and lifts the flecks of foam
from creamy crests
a gull
so poisefully wheeling
whose cry is sad and piercing as a voice
from Tartarus and mournful as the moan
of treacherous Sicilian ebbing tide.
E.N.