Eventide 
by Ren Powell

Winter has left and the bright pong 
of seaweed moves in from the shore
and tangles itself in the heather

Black lichen is slick with evening
She climbs the smooth boulders
to watch the sea 
unroll

Where once women waited 
for the fishermen 
Where once women waited 
for the soldiers

she waits for the solitary tern
to spot a fish
and dive

Ren Powell is the editor of Babel Fruit online journal, and the administrator of the protestpoems.org project. Her publishing credits include nine books of translations and two books of poetry. Her poems have been translated and published in Norwegian, French, Basque, Spanish and Croatian. Ren is currently pursuing a doctorate in Creative Writing at Lancaster University in England.

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