Waves swell
crawling over sand,
discarding shells, broken
abandoned, or picked clean
hold me
land says,
swallow me
let me sink back under your skin
a gull croaks, shakes its head, cries out
against the wind and takes flight
waves overlap over sand, over shell, over
land, climbing, withdrawing, tide in, tide out
hold me
Thank you for reading!
-Alina