To stare at the sea beyond the sea
To stare at the sea beyond the sea
beyond the break and the swell
is to gaze at nothing,
a nothing that defies belief in nothingness,
whose opposite brings a slow forgetting.
Stare at the shore,
where flames swell and glass breaks
purpose from the sea’s murmured verse,
where lights cut a path across and
smoke floats from its breath.
