Sea Escape

My eyes pulled down the window shutters;

Flushed the bowl, turned off the high cool,

And shut the casita door with a slam

Summer now stored in a box of pixel images

Your watch says go now, the desk awaits the keys

Keep the cockles, half shells and dry kelp

Even as the tide wanted to take it back to sea

But soon these, too, will be lost in the shimmer

No goodbyes, go as you have come

I won’t be by the parasols nor the divers’ stand

Promises now as paper boats riding the waves

Crashing, dissipating into frothy crests

I walk alone by the fringe of a churlish sea

Midst the commotion of sea birds

Fighting over wide eyed crabs scurrying

As I gather precious shells washing in

Already I have forgotten you

Nothing but the soft whisper of waves

And the sparkle of bejeweled sand

Spoil me as I bask in the motherly sun

I cannot go home ‘cause I am home

My soul is imprinted on the white sands

The call of great whales sound my coming

Mermaids on dolphins wave in greeting

The sandy depths now my garden patch

With corals and the barnacles in bloom

I cling to driftwoods and wrecked derelicts

Happily counting seashells and chasing wee fish