Crevasses hide slidden trees
while cliff tops have shed huge rocks
now littered out below
like unstrung Brobdingnagian beads
On this miss-sized jewellers of a beach
glittering with quartz and pearled fossils
we scamper over curled dark pools
fish for a sense of perspective
Copyright © 2021 Kim Whysall-Hammond
The Cheesesellers Wife 
Oh, fine work indeed, Kim Loved dem Brobdingnagian beads!
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Thanks Ron. glad you liked it!
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‘have shed huge rocks’ – how marvellous!
West of The Cobb at Lyme Regis is a particularly moody stretch of beach (all cliff-slide and ‘slidden trees’) called Monmouth. Curiously, it is ‘blue’, too, as the cliffs are a clay called Blue Lias.
There is a sudden and surprising area there where the rocks are encrusted with huge ammonites – I always describe them as the size of dinner plates, but that is incorrect; dinner plates is far too conservative. Anyway, it is quite spectacular. As is your poem, Kim!
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Thank you Nick—- and thanks for the tip about Monmouth near Lyme Regis. The ammonites at Blue Anchor are of two types, up to 4cm wide and pearlescent, then big and rocky and up to sooner plate size.
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