Beach

Cliff’s a table laidwith grass like seaweedfor a mermaid’s bedblue blue aquaturquoise porpoiseseals circling the tide.Headland locksto leewardwind chimes yachtclimbs the swell;pirate’s tide hidesin caves below us.Couple’s cruisethe boardwalkstride in both directionsconjugal pairs matchinghabit printed on theirfaces.