Not A Wine-Dark Sea Poem by Valerie Laws

There, in the meat of the wave,
Where the water thickens
Bunching its muscle to leap,
That green,
That is the sea's true colour.

The silver the sun slicks on,
All dazzle and gleam,
The blues, violets and greys
The sky lends, these the sea wears:

In its cold and boundless heart,
The ocean's flesh
Is the deep true green
Of crystallised
Angelica, whose flowers
White as wavecaps,
Storm the cliffs.