On a beach shaped like a
Martian dollar sign
we gently step the other
side of the spoon
anticipating eternal
lullabies
that hush the
broken valves
of the sea
“But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space”
—John Donne
to toss a shadow across the sand
(the things you can’t remember like the things you
can’t forget
raking the tide