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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.