TOM GRINDROD

hear it

hear it before you see it

against the rain 

shoulders hunched

blowing out 

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turn the corner and there

it is

a great roiling wall of 

liquid concrete

pebbledashed

spitting and furious

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sound and mass

and violence

rearing up high above us

as wide and obliterating as the sky

we run down

just to feel our feet sink into the pebbles

the wind in our mouths

in our eyes and hair

and our hands

pressed into each other’s hands

facing down the sea

spit and foam

but we are invincible together

nothing can stop us

nothing in the sea

or in the universe

she smiles 

and in her eyes

she holds me

a hand 

my hand

pressed to her side

pulse

within a pulse

within a pulse


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