File:Rock Formations, Giant's Castle (2978625242).jpg
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Taken on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. GIANT'S CASTLE From here, I can look down on a gull, wheeling against the sea, herringboned with brown, bill agape with a timeless yawl. I have climbed up through earthworks with their crust of heather, and thrift gone over, and am sitting in some giant’s seat of stone, worn by wind. I am writing, leaning on my hat. From here, all can be seen, kirtled in a thin mist, from Clapper Rock to Peninnis and Agnes beyond. I have my back to the sea; it is too much to bear. There are all sorts of shades: ones who perched this precipice with wind for company, frill-throated antiquarians who have wondered, and down below there, in that watch-house of stone, is my shade watching yours. You are bending, laughing. A black beetle negotiates your bracelets, scales the skin of your inner arm, clinging upside down. Gulls yawling. Wind wearing stone. Meloes crawling. Source material: Giant’s castle is a cliff castle on the coastal path south of Porth Hellick, St. Mary’s. It has never been excavated, but iron age pottery was discovered there during the Second World War. It consists of four curving ramparts, protecting a small, rounded area which may be a hut platform. The rest of the castle is dominated by a large, wind-worn granite outcrop. The first of the ramparts has been cut away to accommodate a watch-house, now ruined. In spring and early summer, the area is carpeted with blooms of thrift, and the violet oil beetle, Meloe violaceus, is common there. By autumn, the thrift flowers have bleached to white, and the adult beetles are nowhere to be seen. Poem by Giles Watson, 2004. |
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Author | Giles Watson from Oxfordshire, England |
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