J.W. Burleson photo / Boquillas del Carmen, Coah.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Sea Salt: David Mason




SEA SALT
  
Light dazzles from the grass
over the carnal dune.
This too shall come to pass,
but will it happen soon?
A kite nods to its string.
A cloud is happening

above the tripping waves,
joined by another cloud.
They are a crowd that moves.
The sky becomes a shroud
cut by a blade of sun.
There’s nothing to be done.

The soul, if there’s a soul
moves out to what it loves,
whatever makes it whole.
The sea stands still and moves,
denoting nothing new,
deliberating now.

The days are made of hours,
hours of instances,
and none of them are ours.
The sand blows through the fences.
Light darkens on the grass.
This too shall come to pass.
                                                       -David Mason
                        "End of summer: Wassenar NL"                Basha Burwell ©2012


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