Waves washing ashore before Wednesdays
Before any names for days
Before any names.
Verdant plants lining the foreshore
But no flowers, no grasses swaying in the wind
Nor birds.
A strong high sun, younger
Warm water a soup of life
Insects buzz over white sands.
Plumes rise
From distant mounts
Dusk descends.
Moonless night, sea is calm
Over half the earth, not a single light
Lower Carboniferous, Ireland.
©Duncan Cleary, 08-05-2003
