A Shadow Slides Over The Estuary,

by Jenni Meredith

A shadow slides over the estuary,
a hard wind disturbing its waters;
unsettles resident waders.

Storm clouds gather round idle gantries,
A golden light edges the rooftiles
on the hillslopes across the river.

Our train rattles round the bay, slicing the
hushed air as day waits for the squall to break.

Beneath the river's surface sabella beds
sway spaghetti tubes; a forest haven
for sponges, shrimps and nursery fry.

Under the far shore gantries,
pens scratch paper,
signatures sealing their fate.

A shadow slides over the estuary,
a hard wind disturbing its waters...

 

 

Jenni Meredith I am a poet and a journalist, working freelance from home. I have a regular column in Disabled and Supportive Carer magazine, which I have written for the past ten years. My poems have been published in various magazines including Bare Bones, DAIL, DAM, Dance Matters, Language and Ecology online, and anthologies including Speaking Our Minds, Under The Asylum Tree, Mustn't Grumble, pub Women's Press, Bigger Than The Sky, pub Women's Press, The Bees Sneeze, pub Stride, as well as two print collections; "You're Really Cutting Me Up?", published CATHAP in 2003 and Snow Ewes Crowing Over Spilt Snails, Pocket Books, 1998. I have also published several collections and single poems on video such as Shifting Shadows, 2003, awarded a prize in Kynniskino video festival, Helsinki,Through The Pane, 1995, (awarded a prize in Noi Gli Altri, Video Festival Turin, Flood, exhibited in various art galleries, in Staffordshire, Hampshire and Essex, UK as well as at GAGA festival, Berlin, screened in video festivals internationally and broadcast on Meridian TV, UK (terrestrial)

I was commissioned in 2000 by Suffolk County Council to create an artists' CD ROM and many of my interactive, animated poems are published in that work. I also have poems online at my website; http://www.wordsart.co.uk , including an interactive poetry/ art piece commissioned by National Disability Arts Forum, UK, called Transmutations, and several sound poems, so me of which have gained airspace in radio broadcasts and podcasts such as GI Podcast (USA hip hop station), Artwave Radio ( greek art radio). I have performed my poems on BBC Radio 3, on BBC TV South, in berlin, Turin and around UK, including Apples And Snakes in London, England.

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