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Emma
Williams
Lyme Regis
Drowned
in wind and cold mid-summer rain
we
duck inside the chalk-white door of the fishmonger
so
close to the water his gill-clad denizens
may
as well keep kicking
until
he has the cash in hand.
A
pint glass filled with prawns
nestles
in a bed of ice
a
row of bright-eyed haddock winks
from
the counter steel and stainless
the
nearby mussels black and closed
the
hundred times her face dropped blind behind the Cobb
and
rain in bullets shot the kelp-clad spray,
white-eyed,
salt-sodden, a down-tossed net torn
from
some lost skiff in this uncaptained storm. |
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Williams: Originally
from the United Kingdom, I currently reside in Chattanooga, Tennessee
where I work as a freelance journalist, photographer and poet.My poems
have appeared in Fluent, Apostrophe and New Millenium Writings, and I
recently received the Knoxville Writers Guild Celtic Heritage Award for
my poem Friday Afternoons on Swansea Bay. I hold an MFA in
Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. Visit her website at:
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