Incoming Tide

Far flung waves
faintly calling from
my garden's end.

Each cycle of the moon
they grow braver
in their greeting.

Fences fall.

The
crashing
of
the
waves
rises.

Awoken
from sleep
as it wraps on my window.

Bricks falling
into its foaming mouth.

Charley Lenton-Lyons is a UK-based poet with a multidisciplinary environmental science background. Drawing on training in zoology and social research, their work explores power, adaptation, and strangeness across ecological and human systems, often blending the mythic with the contemporary. Their poetry is forthcoming with Flora Fiction.