Seismic Shift

An ounce of perfume in $300 shoes
Her swan song’s a real rocker

My heart, my beach, my wave, my
aimlessness
beneath the pinwheel sun
(Chumash petroglyph)

              sand castle rotting seaweed sun swarm
              tentacle
                              clawfoot foam debris
              salt mist breath
              hush
                                                open & shut
              A biblical haiku in an underwater theme park
              & the god whose death he died

left coast
last coast                     a stillborn radiance
lost coast                     folded into the
                                        irrevocable haze