Jetties

Pwllcrochan

Jetties are matchsticks, balanced into piers.

Like card houses, eventually you stack one too many.

A tanker is docking three hundred thousand tons of oil,

ribbed waves rock to shore. Chimneys are belching,

a low hum under the pylon. The air smells of engine.

Everything crackles. Even the trees.

Out of a sycamore, a squirrel plummets

with a loud crack on the tarmac.

In the bay, a single turbine

spins, dizzy with the wind.