Stone tells stone

Thoughts shuffle out from within the shingle,
Sifted by the surf
As the sea stitches its way up the sand
Line by unfurling line.
Water lifts colour, texture, tincture;
Stone tells stone stories.
Curlew calls seep from blue edges
And arctic tern nips tail from the surface;
Silver sprat splinters sunlight
As it bends from the beak.
Later
Thought shuffles far out in the shingle
While a moon silence settles.

Published as part of the #Cateran100 project on Soundcloud, 2020. https://soundcloud.com/user-557410710/stone-tells-stone-by-larissa-reid

-Larissa Reid

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-Larissa Reid

A freelance science writer by trade, Larissa has written poetry and prose regularly since 2016. Notable publications include Northwords Now, Silk & Smoke, Green Ink Poetry, Fenacular, Black Bough Poetry Anthologies, and the Beyond the Swelkie Anthology. She had a poem shortlisted for the Janet Coats Memorial Prize 2020. Larissa is intrigued by visible and invisible boundary lines in landscapes – geological faultlines, myth and reality, edge-lines of land and sea. Based on Scotland’s east coast, she balances her writing life with bringing up her daughters. Larissa is a founder member of the Edinburgh-based writing group, Twisted::Colon.