Chris Jelley

Vitamin S, 2021

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Watchet bedrock
geological clock
a land where sea and silt take stock

a place of marination
of tomb stone dippers
bivalve crustaceans
and bemused day trippers
a place which strips and rips against its own tide
a place proud of the welts and scars in its hide

Watchet, a land of subtle commotion
where copper bottomed brethren of strength and devotion
and purveyors and imbibers of vitamin silt
that obsequious mineral
raw blood of this town
an omnipresent and highly galvanic solution
although never enough for the ferryman’s absolution

Watchet
a slow swooning land
for the sea will sculpt
what it likes with its hands

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