charred exoskeleton
with a spider-like crown
empty network of wires
skinny black straws
a burnt-out wreck
of salt-flecked bones
mottled gaps unfilled
now an eerie static abacus
a blemish in the sea
crumbling like stale cake
Apr 2, 2015
Apr 2, 2015 at 2:51 PM UTC
charred exoskeleton
with a spider-like crown
empty network of wires
skinny black straws
a burnt-out wreck
of salt-flecked bones
mottled gaps unfilled
now an eerie static abacus
a blemish in the sea
crumbling like stale cake
Written: April 2015.
Explanation: A poem written in my own time inspired by an image in the May 2015 issue of The Sunday Times Travel Magazine of West Pier in Brighton, taken by Finn Hopson. The pier closed in 1975 and fell into disrepair, particularly after a large fire in 2003.
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