Litter Bug at Hayle
Across much astonishing sand
I chased as it flew
over sun-dazzled breeze.
It was a tinkerbell thing,
sparkle-dancing deliberate lines,
faster, faster;
a silver-plated swallow
far from the outlying tide,
tuning its own event horizon.
Tearing along in sensible brogues,
twice I caught up, almost
got a foot down on it.
Dressed like a clown
in long padded coat
with a pixy hat,
stamp, stamp-stamp,
nearly caught me a tinny foil dragonfly
out of the dunes.
Susan Taylor has six published poetry collections, the most recent of which is A Small Wave for Your Form from Oversteps Books in 2012. She coedits the South West poetry journal The Broadsheet with her partner, Simon Williams.