Robert Nisbet

Emblem

They were everywhere, nowhere,

on relationship’s scale,

on the evening they came to that shingled beach,

thirty, forty, each attached, unattached.

A mild moonlight spilled around them

but it was mainly those bright spring stars

they loved. Nude bathing thoughts,

and all such thoughts, and all such thoughts,

rolled in with the night sea

but it was April, for all the warmth,

and they were somewhere, nowhere,

on relationship’s scale and it wasn’t a poem

and it wasn’t a novel, it was the two of them

walking, briefly not walking, embracing,

until they left the beach and the evening,

never really leaving them, and the night’s emblem

lay in their memories’ drawer

until they came to re-claim it.

Robert Nisbet is a Welsh poet with over 200 publications in Britain, as well as a number of appearances in the USA, in magazines like San Pedro River Review, Constellations, Illya’s Honey and Clementine Unbound.