Sunday, June 21, 2020

Once on Ardmore Beach



I’ve been walking the moon’s bright path over the sea
from Ardmore beach for too many years.
My notion of the magical: waves coming ashore
like the game we played as children,
a hand slapping down as the one beneath slips away.
The sound of the waves rounding a headland into the distance;
another time, another world.
The beacons on the far shore flashing, as remote, as poignant
as the piping of waders lost in the pockets of darkness.
Our last night.
And a glittering moonlit highway through it all,
in dreams we’d walk it, looking the moon full in the face, laughing,
magnified, colossal, in all that wilderness.

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