Mural
I have blipped this before, last time was the Friday panel, today I am blipping the Monday panel.
This wall mural is one of a series which adorns the BT exchange building in Rose Street. Each mural depicts a verse from The Beachcomer by John MacKay Brown.
This mural was designed by Astrid Jaekel in2013.
Here is the poem in full
Monday I found a boot –
Rust and salt leather.
I gave it back to the sea, to dance in.
Tuesday a spar of timber worth thirty bob.
Next winter
It will be a chair, a coffin, a bed.
Wednesday a half can of Swedish spirits.
I tilted my head.
The shore was cold with mermaids and angels.
Thursday I got nothing, seaweed,
A whale bone,
Wet feet and a loud cough.
Friday I held a seaman’s skull,
Sand spilling from it
The way time is told on kirkyard stones.
Saturday a barrel of sodden oranges.
A Spanish ship
Was wrecked last month at The Kame.
Sunday, for fear of the elders,
I sit on my bum.
What’s heaven? A sea chest with a thousand gold coins.
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