We are talking sweeping boulevards
we are talking exotic palm trees
we are talking church towers
we are talking wooded skylines;
but more than that we are talking
human intervention
the draining, the weathering
the clearing, the flooding
the reclaiming, the quarrying
the crop managing
the developing, the shaping
the barrow-winding roads;
we are talking the heritage
the people, the diversity
the entertainers
the movers, the shakers
the developers, the bone-caves;
we are talking the natural
phenomena of geology
the mudstone, the limestone
the sandstone
the free draining red soil
the marine lives, the underwater caves
the offshore islands;
and we are talking
the fertility, the calcicole plants
the saltgrass and its filtering
the hedgerows and its flowers;
and then we are talking
the coastal shapes
the cliffs, the combes
the rolling farmland
the slopes, the valleys
the low lying coast, the beaches;
and then we are talking
the moon,
the moon, how it runs red
over Torbay
we are talking the moon.
© Sheila Aldous 2019
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