LASCARI SALINELLE 1998 - "THE WAY IT SEEMED AT 4am" - a poem.

GOOGLE EARTH AERIAL SHOT OF LASCARI SALINELLE BEACH

AND ADJACENT FIELDS - BEACH AREA PUBLIC SEATING

OVER TO THE RIGHT HAND SIDE.

Un-useable badly damaged Salinelle beach area seating - summer 2009.

Beachside fieldscape 2009 cleared for car parking.

Summer 2009 beachside fieldscape.

Sole wooden post remaining (2009) from earlier times - see below.

Salinelle beachside nearby fieldscape before modern clearances.

Beachside nearby fieldscape 1980's through 1990's.

Fieldscape "high wirings" featured in 1998 poem.

"High wirings".

"High wirings" from which a night-time "Star" was toppled.

THE WAY IT SEEMED AT 4am

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Imagination had

a faintly

fishy smell,
a clear sky, lit

by a thigh high

almost full moon

was slowly but surely

sinking to its knees,

waves crashed,

rolling and receding

along the nearby shore.

In the distance

a dog barked.

Right above me

balanced on a very high wire

that truly I could see

a Star was toppled

by a single puff of passing cloud.

Nobody moaned out loud

(as only nobody can)

"Oi shut it man

d'you know

what time it is".

I.C.

Lascari Salinelle.

6 July 1998.

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The above poem came through at 4am on the night in question when sleeping in the open I awoke just briefly from my summer slumbers amid the fieldscape shown above. In those days it was somewhat helpfully comfortably overgrown with vegetation. That vegetation has all now been removed as have all the wooden upright posts and also of course the "high-line wirings" that so suprisingly crept into "The Way It Seemed" poetic imagery on that summer's night .

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The fieldscape in question, which runs immediately adjacent to salinelle beach, has now been entirely cleared and is used during the summer season for car parking. Just one of the old wooden post survives - now on the horizontal - as shown in one of the above foto's.

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Over the 1987 - 2003 period I peacefully slept out at Lascari Salinelle on some 40 occasions altho' not always in the above fieldscape - there are also quiet peaceful woodlands in the relatively nearby Salinelle area.

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The beachside area nowadays is not as invitingly hospitable as it had been hitherto - for example one of the above foto's made in the summer of 2009 shows that almost all the public seating was smashed and un-useable. To update this smashed seating comment having very recently (late Sept 2010) returned from a Lascari re-visit the seating has now been repaired.

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Anyway it is pleasing to acknowledge that I mainly have very nice memories of my numerous LASCARI SALINELLE visits some of which have already been featured in previous SICILY ABLAZE blogspots - see - HERE & HERE & HERE .

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