Will Vigar

poet. writer. imposter.

Wight Sketches

The Needles is a row of three distinctive chalk sea stacks that rise out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight. There is a lighthouse at the end of the stacks.

Okay, so I’ve not been around for a while. A mix of block and illness has conspired to keep me from writing but, tentatively, I seem to be back although the first bit of poetry I’ve written is as dense and cryptic as it used to be before I learned to relax. I can only assume that the more i write, the most relaxed I’ll be so I’ll return to these sketches at a later date.

Wight Sketches

1

Tennyson sighs from the western 
edge of the calcium spine and watches 
as the wabbit sun sinks through sixpence 
air; a satinate fragmentation; a soft 
squandered marbling of rose and violet 
stains his stretch of lapis rapture.


2

Gorse gilds the weald at the site 
where Ado fell, drowning in her saline
wash, threading and weaving around chalk 
stacks in a passive, deathless dabka. 

More like crossword clues but, hey…

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