I think I have achieved a great simplicity, rustic and superstitious.
―Paul Gauguin
You sink a little deeper
lighting matches
underwater
as palm trees tumble in the wind…
Other times, other places
memories, feelings
too heavy to be lifted
like the shadow of a seagull
haunting the inaccurate thrift store
of my personality―
a seashell echo,
a rusted finger of coral,
the beach at Waikiki
in braille…
& the moon is a rock at the bottom of a tidepool
shimmering with reflected light