moonrise
new chevrons chalking
the wind – two terns re-
turned north re-
vise the estuary’s silvers
rollers far out lumpen
with seals the links
hump with bronze
hordes of whin
the copters’ relay
belfries the cloud
peels & slices
half-hours
a mussel shell tips
on a cake of sand – chink
of wave in its bows still
waiting to be bailed
the horizon offers
its quiet practice its
diffuse gaze a tanker
breaks my meditation
& I am night-
startled I—
over the boatshed
flushed & full how
did I miss
the peony moon
– sways eastward now
out towards Norway
its sun-mirror’s mirror
rusting the current
Lucy Ingrams won the Manchester Poetry Prize (2015) and the Magma Poetry Competition (2016). A pamphlet, Light-fall, is published by Flarestack Poets.