A Sculpture Drawn From War


Today I found a small piece of rough concrete

With two small pebbles embedded in its mass

My find was once part of our wartime sea defences

Which had been broken down and weathered by the sea

Yet it had in its destruction achieved a considerable beauty of its own

I called the larger of the two pebbles Sigourney and the other Ruth

But I did not name the concrete as there was no reason to do so