Nightmare waves

Return again

Follow upon a long withdrawing sea

Exposing in phosphorescent foam

Secret caverns, canyons and cities

Of alter earth

In the great undersea channel

Between this land and that large island

And its strange creatures

Momentarily beckon to us

In strange curiosity

And then the withdrawing

Mighty sea

Comes again in a rising fury

And waves the once were low

Grow and grow

In the moon's mysterious glow

And we race up to higher ground

Caught between the crashing sea

And steep cliffs

Of sharp rocks and wet slippery clay

And our feet are held fast

By the grasping sand

And though our hearts pump furiously

Our legs move naught

And soon we are submerged

In the depths of the sea

There to glide like sea nymphs

For eternity

Denizens of the deep

Citizens of the sea

Seasons

Odd Ends: Perennial Poesy along the Way

2005