Literature
Seaspray Memories
Where its skirt flaps on the shore the sea looks fragile. Cake icing, boiled into moss-crystals changing every second.
Linger, wane, wisps and ruffled glass over the sand and here is some yellow-brown of the shallows, safe for crabs and toddlers.
(You can have it if you want. A present.)
Here is the young fresh green later out and with it the waves begin to skim. I think that depth is adolescence. Don't you see the excitement as they pull on their dresses and prance without a care?
Brisk against the sky, a painting stretched. Blue is deep. Danger-blue, darkened now, and were you to swim over there it'd -
(fear is bottomless. Sinks your