Sea Battle There was a moment after the sinking of the boat when there was silence as we reached the bottom of the sea there was a moment when the storm gave us back the sky and the clouds sent down gifts, cerulean, blue-green, ice-blue, crimson, purple, gold, indigo, and men became like singing seals claiming the ocean for themselves we sang in that moment and the sound held fast against the light tiered with the water's turquoise men floated up like single flowers while synaesthetic angels plucked music, orange, lemon, tastes at the edge of honey when the storm came again I was alone with the self in the dark ocean of my soul wretched, but rising still Thelma Laycock Thelma Laycock has been published in various magazines and anthologies. Her two poetry collections published are A Persistence of Colour (2011) and A Difference in Direction (2015) (both Indigo Dreams Publishing), plus, a series of interlinked short stories, Connecting North, (Stairwell Books, 2019). Some of her work has been translated into Hebrew, Romanian, Italian, French, and Welsh.
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