BEACH IN WINTER
You tell me your heart is heavy this winter,
all that brings joy are the lights,
so I describe how the moon rose
on the empty beach this afternoon,
paving the sand and the sea with silver,
how a congregation of stars
gathered to pray in the water
and the stained glass in the footbridge
mapped itself among their reflections,
and when you say it’s in the quiet times
the enormity of what’s happening
floods over you, I invent
storms of bioluminescence
summoning everything they can
to their bright minds and sparking
blue through the darkness.
TESS JOLLY has published two collections, Intimate Architecture and Breakfast at the Origami Café, both with Blue Diode Press. She lives with her family on the south coast of the UK, where she runs her freelance editing business: www.poemsandproofs.co.uk.