AMIDA
TRUST

Poetry

Cars Overlooking the Tyne

by Prasada Caroline Brazier

Strange red and grey tombstones
They stand, square on to the sea
Teeth into the storm

Behind the lighthouse's lonely whiteness
The sky crawls in.
Slate black curtains across the distance
And into the wrestling sea sting driving shafts of snow
As seagulls split the coppered clouds.

And each in separate worlds
We sit
Cut off, protected from the storm and from each other
Filling our tin prisons
With our expanding thoughts.


P.C.J. Brazier
circa 1988