Another Summer Season Has Ended
Mooring buoys
bob on the surface
like balloons
discarded after a party.
The sea stretches
beyond the haze of the horizon
into infinity,
it’s millpond stillness
rippled
only by a ferry
gliding silently
into another world.
Waivering reflections
on the water
endorse the isolation
of the island.
Another summer season has ended.
Responses
The earth borrows the land after sifting through the rice, soaping the water, sorting through the family albums. The scarcity of the rice, burrowing in neighbours’ homes, for sugar, rice and soap. The isolation was split into silence and stillness, the water ledge marks bubble away as forgetting their motherland. Cassie Jones’ poem pictures the immaterial world, the powerless, diminished and undetermined earth in face of the growing influence of the manmade to be tipped to new season
–Response from SP, Gibraltar