Robyn Cairns

Altona beach shoreline
swimming thoughts
to an island of fairy terns
joining the flock
into blue

on mangrove shoreline
for a long time
together in stillness
the curious clicking
of mud crabs

while strolling Long Jetty
a thrashing barracoota
spits blood across pier planks
the wonder and horror
of staring children

Port Albert pier
teenage boys night fishing
leave the horrors
of the world
on their switched off screens