Pele Tower
All the time, pervading,
invading Pele View,
the yellow rape
smells strongly of bitter flowers.
The pollen drifts on
windscreens
like a late spring
snowdrift.
Pele Tower sits
mutely,
it has no bell,
no voice, no alarm to
say “I’m drowning”,
going under,
in this constantly moving
mass of treacherous water.
The tower once a home
to sheep.
Now an island,
adrift,
among and amidst a
sea of citrus.
Intense colour saturation,
cadmium hue light,
reflecting coldly on
the warm sand-stone structure.
Swallows dive-bomb
insects
just above the heads of
zesty blooms.
And all the time in
the background
the sound of water on
rock.
The Scars at Cresswell
resound day and night
to high winds
smashing wave after wave
a dull roar
giving voice to the
crop.
Subtle prismatic
greys of the sea,
the changing greens
of the forest,
the after image of acid
lemon – to neon blue, bleeding over the edges
onto houses, trees,
sky.
Colour polluting the
eye and mind,
rendering all else, colourless
and drab,
pushed back
as juicy neon pops
forward.
Breaker crop,
breaking down the
soil,
the balance of light
and dark
is it all binary?
Sometimes it is
both - and.
The yellow and the
blue.
The swallows and the
insects.
The sea and the rock.
The tower and the
land.
The swallows are still
chasing each other,
as I watch from the
window at Pele View.
Skimming the rape,
wind moving sections
of the blooms.
Perhaps potatoes
would have been more useful?
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