Mark Roberts
the old whaling station
stood here
wasted
away
now
sand
slightly
thicker
blood
or whale blubber
ghost whales
swim offshore
songs of harpoons
pikes and rifles
remember
a crimson ocean
picture
a whale carcass
on a trolley
&
rows of workers’ cars
lined up
in a sandy carpark
Mark Roberts is a Sydney based writer and critic. He is the founding editor of Rochford Street Review (http://rochfordstreetreview.com/) and is currently poetry editor for Social Alternatives journal. His collection of poems, Concrete Flamingos, will be published by Island Press early in 2016.