The Sea

The wide sea swells with muscular power: surges under thundering clouds. Waves in chaos rush and tower, careless of steepness, smash in whirls of foam, slam on slabs of rock. Until tiring, sighing as rays of sunlight slice a shredded grey sky, the sea’s scaly skin sparkles: the monster settles in rest. Vast and deep are the mighty seas that roar. Yet, at curving edges, surfers ride waves, landing softly on sandy shores. Sleeping under an afternoon haze, the sea stretches between headlands: salty ocean beneath the sky’s hot breath. A toddler with his mother is paddling in the shallows, where little ripples run up the beach now the storms are gone.