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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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Emma 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: