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Holdfasts

Weed-flesh, wind-wracked, unbleeding Clumped and kicked along the strand. The stench and slickness of it; Holdfasts clench like claws.

Encrustations craze them, salt caked, Calcareous. Crabs scuttle, crustaceans Jerk their joints within them. Stalkeyed, Secretive; jostling for space.

You should have seen the storm That wrenched them from rocks Fathoms down, their forests Of leathered leaves whirled

By ocean winds. Water A flurry of whiteness, then Browned by shreds of weed.

Lifted, cliff high, and dumped, With shrimps - bug-eyed, Planktonic, air-drowned And spasmodic - the holdfasts, Amputated from concretions, Writhe in wind, like severed worms.

And all our glib presumptions Wither with them: we too toil To build on rock – and wind And water ruin us.

Source material. Written after a Force 9 gale on St. Mary’s on 27th August, 2004. The holdfasts of brown seaweeds look like roots, but their function is limited to anchoring the plants to rocks; they do not absorb nutrients like the roots of land plants. (Poem by Giles Watson.)
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Author Giles Watson from Oxfordshire, England

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Giles Watson's poetry and prose at https://flickr.com/photos/29320962@N07/2907308056. It was reviewed on 21 September 2022 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

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