1643: Some Days the Sea | Richard Blanco

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"Some Days the Sea"
Richard Blanco

The sea is never the same twice. Today
the waves open their lions-mouths hungry
for the shore and I feel the earth helpless.
Some days their foamy edges are lace
at my feet, the sea a sheet of green silk.
Sometimes the shore brings souvenirs
from a storm, I sift spoils of sea grass:
find a broken finger of coral, a torn

Comments

[versipellis]

Ah, such a beautiful evocation of the sea! I want to go and walk on a beach now!

[with_rainfall]

There are so many moods and scenes to this. Lovely.

[flashfly]

I liked this: watch a man-of-war die a sapphire in the sand.

[aerinha]

This is lovely. So perfectly captures the way I feel walking on the beach (which I'm now reminded I haven't done in a very long time)

[onestringed]

Thank you for the O'Hara time capsule!