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Friday, 16 August 2024

With My Back to the Chapel Wall

 




With my back to the chapel wall
I know, from Cedd’s faithful orientation
I am facing East.
And in a bracing onshore wind, 
I look out to sea.

Within moments I am assailed 
by a breath-sapping gust
and simultaneously seized by the vista.

A makeover after millennia
of changelessness.

Tall white tapering candles of steel
surmounted by swirling blades
eagerly drawing energy 
from the same - but amplified wind.

These are our hope.

But grief stricken, I see
that even now
they are threatened by
the menacing blackness
of earlier constructed rigs.

In the foreground,
grasses sway and dragonflies dart,
while they still can.

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