Disentangling

France diminishing as the ocean swirls upending nests of gannets, gulls from ledges, crags where they’ve been hitched for years. These islands have unravelled, cast off their stitches, pitched up north to new locations, more threadworn hems of earth till Jersey’s swapped with Fair Isle, Guernsey’s shuttled off to Harris, while Alderney and Sark now have Norwegian summits peeking down their cold and naked backs.