Almanac Poetry: ‘Gravel Bay’ – Tommy Mallet

 

 

 

Gravel Bay

 

It’s late by the time

the ute pulls up in a gravel bay.

I strip and walk into the ocean,

to wash off work and the world.

 

There’s no moon, the surf’s dropped,

yet in the dark, the shore break sounds superb.

 

I can’t see the waves coming,

they take a bit to get through,

but on their other side

the ocean is a

slowly shifting black glass

underneath an endless Milky Way.

 

I drift with the smallest rip,

that could be broken any time,

as if it could not,

just to be taken somewhere vast

and timeless.

 

 

Tommy Mallet

 

 

 

 

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