Camber Sands
by Robert Montgomery and Greta Bellamacina
how you do the gate
How you do the dance like this perpetually
How England is nothinged easily
how you do only the end of it
how you remember the morning mist
the sheep in the salt marsh
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done for by voice in the windows
calling down with orders or old haunts of owls
everything starts and ends with where the borders used to be
once France began at the edge of the salt marsh just outside of Rye
once England ended thirty eight miles south of Calais
for the diluted sea
for the held heart
of the just morning
for the gasped mist of the held channelclouds which
Make Sussex and Normandy one territory
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how dare you do all of these drawings on the landscape
as if the earth was something you could make words from
how dare you draw lines on this
Childish Kings
lines on sand
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i didnt want to be just like my mother
I didn't want to be justified at all
Or explained
We never needed to
The wind on the high clouds in the big gulped summer
which pushes cumulus over in new ever blue sky faster
than the P&O Ferry
how you only let the stars leave\
how you only let the post love
why you only wanted to pour me outwards
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my car window Saint brother Louis
the yellow words which have your name
like coins like fountains
like have you noticed everyone
feels really reassured by Japanese restaurants
and tears down
and plywood and soft music
which don't want to attach themselves to any resemblance of rain.
what could the oceans drift or remember
if we could possibly ask them
so many drainted
auctioned to the floor
done like the out facing
The sea has no name for China
or even for America
The sea has no name for even itself.
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Greta Bellamacina is a London-based poet and model who has just released an anthological book of poetry entitled A Collection of Contemporary British Love Poetry. Robert Montgomery is a London-based poet and word artist known for his fire poems. Camber Sands was co-written by Montgomery and Bellamacina in Spain for a new book entitled Points for Time In the Sky. photograph by Fabio Paleari