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It rolls in to me
one fresh churned wave
of salt-laden soup
in mussel shell blue
.
with armor of chiton
in sea-weed sway
and twists of driftwood
on layers of foam
.
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).