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The words are always as	A
strange and dead as those	B
fragments and oddments that	C
the wave casts up on the shore	D
I stand in the sea mist	E
gazing down at the white	F
words and old bits of wood	G
and wonder what they were for	D
I think that they were not	H
ever intended to do	I
what when we seek to speak	J
we believe that they may	K
they cannot bear us up	L
the frothy words and like	M
wings at the lame foot	N
lift us out of the clay	K
	-
For all the reflections	O
I call up out of the sea	P
they seem to speak as the shell	Q
seems to speak for the sea	P
are no more truly here	R
than the wind weaving sand	S
into shapes of things	T
we think that we know and see	P
	-
When in the evening sky	U
a single star appears	V
over my head and the moon	W
out of the cloud lifts its face	X
when the white gull turns	Y
or the high plover hovers	Z
to tell me with a cry	U
I trespass in this place	X
	-
What I see then with	A2
that cloud my witness is	B2
not shapes of the mind or wind	C2
like the slow rainbowings	B2
of the dolphin's skin as it dies	B2
but as though from the cloud	D2
I saw my bone walk the shore	D
the theology of all things	B2
	-
The white stones and the old	E2
odd bits of sea blanched wood	G
Overstrand and the swinging	F2
lighthouse glimpsed in the mists	B2
they flash in the prisms and I	U
believe for a moment I see	B2
the dazzling atoms dancing	F2
in every thing that exists	B2
	-
The children dance on the shore	D
The waves dies on the sand	S
The spray blows to and fro	G2
the children dance and die	U
What waves are these that dance	B2
with the children on the sand	S
I hear them calling but cannot	H
hear what it is that they cry	U
	-
I neither understand	S
nor know why I am moved	H2
beyond these words by the	I2
odd bits of bleached wood	G
cast up on Overstrand	G
or by the black and twisted	G
October evening tree	B2
dying beside the road	G
	-
or by the child of midnight	G
so deep asleep but still	J2
lost in the corridors	B2
of the mansions of dust	G
by any or by all	K2
ceremonial evidence	B2
attesting that we love	L2
simply because we must	G
	-
I walk upon Overstrand shore	D
and the crab at my foot	G
inscribes praise in the sand	G
The wave bursts with glory	B2
because it rises up like	M
angels out of the sea	B2
and the dead starfish burns	B2
on Overstrand promontory	B2
	-
Why do I hear them cry	B2
out from the far side of life	M2
those forms and impulses	B2
unborn beyond the sky	B2
Why should they hope and seek	J
above all else to be	B2
Tonight on Overstrand	G
I know for one moment why	B2

George Barker

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