The use of sunglasses to induce invisibility

Dark blue turquoise & slanted
littered w/pages torn from a bootleg
catalog of sunsets
                              but all of it built w/pieces of colored glass,
smoke, peacock feathers & mandolin strings
HYPNOTIZED by a single
                                                rusted-out palm tree
                              rattling in the wind

& it was light or dark out there
w/the air transparent & buzzing the neon sand
as I would expect nothing more than the measured pulse
of the tide to pace my own uncertain heart all this time
although maybe just a half-step behind

& the beach is tilted in the fog
                              like a bikini in the refrigerator
              sweating out the last day of summer