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Always and never changing

Beach shapes itself under

Curling waves.

Dunes rearranging for

Each sunrise offer a benediction.

Feathers tumble along the tideline.

Gusting wind sprays rainbows.

Halos circle each step, soft sand sifting

In between toes.

Jellyfish collapsed in a glassine heap,

Killdeer skitter, gulls sleep.

Leaping dolphins breach and blow offshore.

Moon-ruled tides,

Neap, high, and ebb cradle

Oceanides, nymphs of the sea, while

Psamathe, goddess of sand beaches, strews shells of

Quahog, ark, scallop, whelk.

Rolling in from foreign shores

Sucking and spitting, the sea

Tastes the sand,

Undulates

Vast as thought.        

Wandering jet streams map the sky, making        

X’s of cirrus.

Yearning for union, the sea mirrors the     

Zodiac above.