Three old women and one old man <br />stand watching the tugboat with 7 tyres lined along its port side <br />starkly black against peeling paint of red <br />cutting the currents <br />while the gulls bob and roll on soft ripples; <br />the man leans towards his wife <br />gestures to the dolphins sliding through the breakwaters; <br />she stays close <br />the other two liaising on the outside <br /> <br />October 2004<br /><br />Penny Hemans<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aberdeen-harbour/
