Magic Carpet Soup

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It rolls in to me

one fresh churned wave

of salt-laden soup

in mussel shell blue

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with armor of chiton

in sea-weed sway

and twists of driftwood

on layers of foam

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bringing crab legs and agates

in dustings of gold

that buckle and rattle

kaleidoscope stones

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and as barnacles yawn

to taste the high tide

it rolls in the next one

for you.

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© 1993, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright

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(a re-write of “Beach” from 1993)

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Marina Beach in Edmonds, Washington (on Puget Sound).

 

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