“Mind Over Matter”
close my eyes
can hear the gull
and children squealing
and palms swaying
and coolers closing
and umbrellas opening
and my heart beating
can feel the coal on my feet
and still I lie down
and welcome the pain
then rivers of relief
in the fingertips of foam
I swim in the sea
taste the salt on my lip
and float away
from shore
human no more
TL