Mark Heathcote

"If I were a hermit crab,
In a shallow rock-pool"
"I'd be contented as can be.
This; distance from the sea."

"Everything, else would be.
Superfluous to me…?
There'd be no reefs—See"
Either above or below me…

"I could be that great-White.
Abiding without; inherit fear!
I'd maroon portions of time,
No one else could near."

"Solitude would be mine.
But oh so lovingly my dear...
I'd call this heavenly coastline!
Ours; and heavenly …I'd steer."

"Sideways …on pins and claws
Love I'd be the happiest crab!
Listening to the seagulls guffaws…
A clubfoot, amputee!
It wouldn't matter to this devotee."