Saul Bennett


30

In mid-Victorian,
      uniformly black,
            & baggy,
                  sea uniforms,
                        a nuns'
school,
      5 attending,
            bobs,
                  in 1955,
                        off a spit
of Blackpool
      sand,
            jetty-rope
                  tethered
                        against low stands
of June
      waves,
            a chorus
                  trilling
                        "Wheeeee..."
to this routine
      Atlantic
            sub-
                  sport,
                        as if besotted in heaven!

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