Peach-pinched beachcombers
enter the scene
with sugary-sun splashes,
darkened sunglasses.
Beautiful Bahamas
with pink sand beaches
and the gully wash
that ebbs and flows, sweetens
her veins with serendipitous warmth,
tantalizes his bushwacker brain.
Foraminifera of her cheeks,
her wet towel beneath.
Horseshoe bay smiles,
waves them in
with its turquoise siren-sea and
blushing granules.
Bahama mama runs
as if she’s a Bay Watch babe.
To the one who embraces
her intoxicating hand,
she is the embodiment
of a precious shell in his palm.
Does he feel the sun…
smell the salty air?
He feels the heat indeed,
tastes the salty air she breathes —
She is the Bahamas to him.
He crashes the island
of her flowery towel.
His lips envelope
his piña colada.
9/22/2020
Categories:
foraminifera, beach, drink,
Form: Free verse
SEABED SOAKED
coconuts float from purple palms
in the tropics
thirsty for its watery alms
wet umbrella
a salad that tosses and turns
a fever burns
consoler massages my burns
my suntan bleek
warm winds cannot compete with skin
red raw and spurned
as you run off with youthful sin
down pebbled beach
her hair carelessly bleached from sun
hand in hand with
my crinkled, decrepit old one
her smile will fade
as red foraminifera
turns beaches pink
she soon will stand on graying sand
with missing link
flame from mirthful cheeks - fever’s fried
i laugh out loud
and snap a towel at backside
of seaside hunk
1/16/2019
Fiction - I’m happily married :)
Categories:
foraminifera, humor, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
FISH THINK TANK
Any aquatic creature will know that
Fish feel they are kings of the sea.
Their arrogance is cold and palpable
Because they are so numerous - many more
Than whales, or squid, or lobster.
But any thinking fish knows that phytoplankton
And foraminifera and countless other species
Easily outnumber fish, and are the true royals;
And that even these multitudinous fellows in turn
Realize that hydrogen atoms, electrons, and photons
Are virtually limitless, and feel no microscopic arrogance
About their regal position in the universe.
Thinking fish are appropriately humble fish.
Categories:
foraminifera, allegoryfish, universe,
Form: Free verse