by Jamie Stayhouse
(01/03/07)
Someday my wave will breach your sandcastle walls
and my sunlight will shimmer your dunes
and I will walk in the soft seaweed along your shore
and taste your salt breeze
and tease pearls from your parted shell
Like a ravenous sea flower, you will open
and pleasure will lift and suspend you
like the gust under an expectant gull
and you will grip my tiller
and guide me home
When our summer squall finally fades
and all footprints but ours are washed away
then together we will surge and ascend and dally
ceaseless as the tide
The Poet's Companion - by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux