Missing My Metaphor

her joints, 
creaking plank wood,
nails, 
shellacked, splintered,
dark
long
hair, 
sargasso sickly sweetened
blue crab scuttled,
lips both
brown foam'd,
in
tidal moaning,
her boardwalk secrets
fallen,
on 
her beach head,
sand dollars,
insteps
ebb, 
sand bars exposed,
while 
gulls cry 
for clamshells
neap'd,
my bucket 
never full,
those swelling
littorals,
leave me
only salt streak'd
in 
cold 
board shorts,
and 
rough glass
foot cuts,
rip current-ed,
again.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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