Long Reef in winter

You hear the roar half a mile away.

Giant rollers unfurl white banners on the reef. 

Closer in, fish-scale light on curving shimmers.

Ears back into the wind

Jasper does a mad run on the clifftop,

dream material for a twitching afternoon nap.

Two whales, mother and calf, loll in the swell.

Now a southerly churns the water sprites,

the horizon jagged with distant storms.