A sticky south wind chuckles
at flocks of shining tourists
splashing beach-bright clothes
all over a wide bleached
boardwalk smoothly sulky
the younger people vault over
sagging fences impatient for
the waves and the secret
places their hands can linger
underwater after an hour or so
the crowd grows restless
shifting and sighing
on the lumpy sand some even
wondering why they came for
another vacation at the shore
and whether this one week
can be worthy of so much
anticipation while others
sprawl and sink into
their boredom clutching it
as if it were the one-and-only
life boat on a rapidly-sinking ship
(c) 2018, by Hannah Six
Image: Spiterman/Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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