storm rising wavelengths of white ibis 

pulsar the tern’s wings in the Atlantic sun 

zarzaparilla 
brown pelicans trace 
the Folium of Descartes 

where the waves are the end of the beginning 

neither shadow 
nor reflection 
sanderlings 

my best days behind me the waves of the Atlantic 

her wings 
a laughing gull spreads 
the stratocumulus sky 

sea dune 
pennywort stolons stitching together 
the earth 

a quarter moon in the seaspray lavender dusk 

starstrand 
the new vowels 
the Atlantic teaches me

Joshua St. Claire