Asphyxiated blue—
Skin kisses the sun;
Waves smash and batter—
Ivory bursts
Enshroud and consume,
Tossing and toiling
Beneath the bubbling illuminations.
Helpless twisting
Gives to selfless thrashing;
Scorched sand rakes
Flesh ensnared, catches,
Body splayed in the midday sun,
Frigid, sopping—midst fire, twinkling.
Salty stagnance withdraws,
Raging, it heaved rejection,
And the torrent onward roared.