On the Beach
She inserted pink earbuds
whilst lain out on the beach,
a solution to drown seagulls,
and other such wild screeches,
like those howls whipped up by
huge ice-cream-now-demands,
fought off by over-tired parents,
complaints of the young and old:
Immobile, eyes shut, sight cut,
with that downloaded programme
off Radio Four, for such times,
and now, she was kissed by the breeze,
and the soft attrition of blown sand,
she was no longer on the beach.