Tag Archives: beach

Gauge

The sun, like a brandied dream, slips away beneath the world’s ending, or beginning, same difference, by the sea’s ancient gauge and meter.

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Tracks

Life’s fast tracking shots, no impressions are lasting– Gull’s far-off screeching.

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Juliet in Purple

In the purple gloam, stone terrace mourns the loss of Juliet’s nightcalls.

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Gash

Nostalgia, backlit by a warm, gashing flare, scoring Time’s passage.

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Alchemy

Lone gull, stops, listens, the gospel of alchemy– water turned to gold.

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No Moral

Beach noir meets fable, Dashiell Hammett and Aesop filtered through lone gull.

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Cape

A spectral, widespreading cape of lavender misting the seascape, and in the distance, a house, fronted by palms  looking like shadowy pom-poms, its windows lighted eyes blazing swaths of yellow to imbibe the encroaching nocturne.

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Peter

Weeping for his past, rare photo of Peter Pan– Next stop, Neverland.   (Photo by Weegee)

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Beach

Life, give us a break, Love, the loafer’s paradise, childlike in its reign.   (Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson)

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Near

So near to this thing, this love, chastened, on shore’s edge– Forever, dear, yes.   (Photo by Anne Brigman)

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