The day the waves came,
she went out looking.
Rocks, boats slashed by winter.
White Rose half-painted on the quay.
The beach swirled diamonds,
wind down-turning creels.
The Café closed tight
shuddering on the line
where elements collide.
The Orkney Ice Cream sign
was keening by the door like
a gull with a broken wing.
In the bothy he burned
a fire of peat warming
fingers, interwoven. He breathed
the secrets of seashells into her ear.
The sky splintered beyond the window pane,
words drowning as oceans swelled a crescendo
of herring-bones and the lighthouse slowly crumbled.

Note 1:- a bothy is the term used for a small hut or refuge in the wilderness of Scotland.

Note 2:- Collision is an attempt at a concrete poem…the shape on the page is supposed to represent a lighthouse…well, more or less!