Clacton
The sun rises higher;
the heat haze shimmers.
Polaroid clarity;
Sun sharp unreality.
Beached crowds;
panoramic humanity.
Paddlers and swimmers.Big.
Small.
Loosers and winners.
Young.
Old.
Saints and sinners.Beer bellies creased with winter’s white,
Slow cooking prawns, dangerously dozing,
Battered bodies gently browning.
Prone to the sun’s perilous light.Indifferent dads watch babies half drowning;
Svelte young things play to win
A beach baked whale with a baleen grin,
Perfectly formed by the surgeon's knife.
the heat haze shimmers.
Polaroid clarity;
Sun sharp unreality.
Beached crowds;
panoramic humanity.
Paddlers and swimmers.Big.
Small.
Loosers and winners.
Young.
Old.
Saints and sinners.Beer bellies creased with winter’s white,
Slow cooking prawns, dangerously dozing,
Battered bodies gently browning.
Prone to the sun’s perilous light.Indifferent dads watch babies half drowning;
Svelte young things play to win
A beach baked whale with a baleen grin,
Perfectly formed by the surgeon's knife.