What's evident is
not unknowingly La Providencia
as the new normal continually falls short of
& the ancillary bikini doll confirms
Love's transcendence as well as the bitter after
taste in the classic sense
repeated in the windswept cypress
& wet sand when the tide is almost full
although her damp footprints evaporating on the sidewalk
tell a slightly different story
& almost translucent
in the rusty blue-white haze
is what the Ocean says