A Small Treasure She said each stone has a face. I walked while even in that sand she was dancing, finding the agates and the sea glass,...

Two-fold Transition The day faded in behind the warmth of the sun. The leaves fell one by one onto the ground, as if someone was counting...

That Florida Rhythm My boss compares Florida a lot. She places it beside Massachusetts, says it’s the only place she’s lived where people...

The ones with the split tails are terns And if you watch them fly into the wind you will lose your balance and fall onto the soft sand....

Collide Resting Sundays in October and the sun does not speak Rusting spring waters weaving the tide And the melody teaches dance like...

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...