at the beach

Feb 17 '03    Write an essay on this topic.


The Bottom Line At the beach with my uncle several years ago. Transitional time. Found a piece of Flight 800. Wrote this.

there were diamond reflections
off the water then

with dolphins weaving
a tapestry of the surface and the deep

and a man swimming reverently
in their midst

then to return to the sand
in which he rolled shamelessly

beautiful like the dolphins
in his mind's eye

before the final rinse
wet and warm as the mouth

of the woman to whom he would shortly
be returning


the sun was cold today
reflecting off blue glass

which gave no hint
of what lay below

until a girl scrambled ashore screaming with
a jellyfish sting

and then there were bodies floating
slowly inward

gray and lifeless
at first one and then several

faces down eyes agape staring
unknowing into nothingness

a crisp northerly sticking sand to a parched face
motionless and uncaring

like some weary sphinx
with no riddles to ask
and no answers to give



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