1.
wavery glass
reflecting
crackled light
on a beach in Spain
a child running
down to the sea
crying
Voilà la mer!
small shells
tight in her hand
the sea
green at the edges
serene
the world gone mad
gone from view
2. at Tarragona
on a bluff over the
Mediterranean
a three-level villa
of honey-colored
native stone
“the pool halfway down
the bluff
can be pumped full
of either fresh water
or the crystal clear
water
of the sea”
3. hold the shell to your ear
they told me
you’ll hear the Atlantic
the way it sounds
just off Cape Henry
(in a supermarket freezer
in Arizona
Calmar squid
from the Virginia Capes)
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