The Coast Polished pebbles pleat the earth: stream-shaped skin the color of all unknowns shimmering under a sky so grey it nearly...

Ghost Nets Between moonlight and water, my ghosts scroll through the sea with spent fishing line, trapped creatures. If moonlight could...

divers/talkers USS Squalus Retrieval Mission, 1939 they descend in pairs, alone and not in the cold: darkness they wear lead shoes and...

Confluence Framing landscape, rocky existence Bodies of water, twisting ~ turning Path of direction known Single channel, controlled...

Ode to the Horseshoe Crab Muck colored solid shell you shed & swap: a cycle—carapace sectioned in thirds, ten eyes spanning top of spiked...

Morning in Pacifica Highway 1 ribbons down to the beach, the fog hanging wraithlike from the hills, a shroud upon the land. We stand on...

by Luree Scott Beach Body Mossy, sticky brine Slithers around my spinal cord Mucus swirling around each vertebra Swelling my lungs like...

La Jolla I still remember that evening the Pacific crept up on me. Glistening in the distance– I chanced upon her simmering just over the...

Flight 11-16 No matter how hard I looked, no matter how hard I tried, I could not separate the ocean from the sky. Cat’s Eyes Catch the...

An Atlantic Away It’s nights like this where rain permeates flesh bone, the dark oblivion opens above. I wish you would envelope me,...

Montol Festival Midwinter, lanterns shaped like ships and sails Float up to Chapel Street with you in guise— A stickman, masked, who...

Disassociation, Sunset glass beach, fort bragg, ca I stand in this moment as if it is a shallow pool among rocks, and I am watching waves...

Puerto Rico Chaos without danger. Suddenly three lanes are two No honking In Bayamon, we are cowboys Drive over grassy medians Leave the...

Lake Constellations At Lake Constellations, stars mirror in small ripples, glimmer lace tumbles to a boulder crack. Inside diamondbacks...

Cocoxochitl (Dahlias) Grown from tubular bulbs to be eaten, to treat epilepsy their long hollow stems used as water pipes. Only their...

Until Something Fell before you existed I sailed to the frozen lands and dove into the killing sea to find home, to find you in the storm...

Waikiki Beach boys really surf unlike The Beach Boys who sing Rabbit is old and white- haired he surfs rents boards to tourists at...

Kópakonan (Seal Woman) * I’ll tell you the song she’d sing if her lips unfroze their copper--- that she’s peeled her skin to give us the...

The Root of the Wind is Water Wind shreds the clouds, tears them across the horizon. Gone the peachy glow of dawn, and now waves crest...

Where-Wave I will see you at the place where the wave breaks, where the exacted horizon reverts for an instant framed in your dazzled...