sea beyond sea

The way each wave in passing moves
is almost as if a hollow mouth of earth
is breathing into the flesh of sand 
that sinks with each footstep
salt tinged lips of foam
pour like lava over stone after stone
carrying molten of age, inhaling the surface quality of things

a sigh remains.

crystallized sun conducts an orchestra of fog,
harpsichord clouds,
wind blows into its flute to the synthesized notes birdsong 
& harmonies of the seagull,
the sky a sacred chant
and words rattling
like a tambourine.

Under the breathing mouth of the ocean
submerged under white frothing collision
a deepest silence reigns
heavier 
than a wrathful sky blackened by storm
& leaden with the pressure 
of limitless heaven
where far into solid blue
is absence
of sound.
where
past all the eye can see
infinite creatures run amok
dancing in muffled sound
the persistent hum of the water's surface
hiding the span of the living world beneath.

a sea beyond a sea.