Along the North Shore

Beach at Burntisland

A slim fingernail before tropical gardens

Hardy from winter's lashing

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Cracked window at the Good News Supermarket

Memorial wreath - plastic tattered,

Peeling prayer of flowers, red around black eyes

Looking onto Kinghorn

"Faithful unto Death"

It proclaims unto the dead

The names the stone speaks worthy of its standing

Nearby a man swigs Lucozade in black Ford Fiesta Zetec

Orange and sticky down his throat

After an afternoon weaving through job centres, broken bus stops

An accident of a town on Fife's Forth Firth shores

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Looking back driving there

A flash of sun lit up the water

God's aggression on the calm sea

Fist shaped cloud splaying bright curses

Dreams against the day