Swum watchers on beach
holidays form an offshore
float as they avoid salted
sips of fixed tidal risings –
stiff lips – Infectious sand
glues to skin – a troubling
abrasion – a light grazing –
A chatter of adults & kids
under angled-at parasols
[tilted to dash sunburn’s
track] – Talk of exchange
& Brexit crap – Vacations
matter so to pale English
bathers with factor-slaps
& piss-coloured drinks in
bars blasting football – A
fleshy heat riles tempers
& lusts in holidaymakers
& then a swap of shifts as
one week ends & another
commences – no changes
to swum watchers out on
that light fracking tide [in
a year they’ll swim again]