In the form
Of a bright yellow slicker
With matching wellies
Animated
By a girlish delight
In the roiling sea
For the dog
For the man
For the unseen eye
Guiding the lens
To capture
The perfect
Moment
Beyond horizons
Uncharted
Possibility
Gleams
Quiescent mind
Blood rhythms
Salt air rendered
Tide pungent
Ocean whispers
Sibilant
On the shoreline
Shhhh
Shhhhhh
Shhh
Shhhhhhhhh
Bright as the nearest star
Steady as the lighthouse beam
Vast as the ocean
Persistent as the waves
Breaking on the enduring rock
Sometimes a caress
A lullaby sussurus
Sometimes a storm
A tempest of ecstacy
So stop
Take stock
Find firm footing
And there turn
Full face
Into all that comes
Lick the salt
Upon my lips
And savour
All strange beauty
In the bitterness
She said
He laughed
Then leaned down to kiss her
Stern, she held him off
I’m not worthy yet
But couldn’t hold the moment
As he searched her eyes
She laughed
Pulled him to her
And kissed him
Hard
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