Beached (haibun)

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BEACHED (Haibun)

Heat hangs, torrid, pressing upon tired shoulders.

Touched by the occasional warm starfish an ancient, patchy, bird-shit monument kneels in puddled sand beneath a sky stitched to the sea.

below blue

sails billow

over blue

Ripples circle the rock where, in the tide's cloud-crawl, tiny crabs get on with their crabby lives and I wonder how words can convey this sense without images to the eye.

On this slow, tedious, amplified afternoon, I lean against the colossus baffled by the clamour of these idiot gulls, ignorant in the art of give and take, because it's perfectly clear who should yield.

crushed

shell in a footprint

empty beach

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©Regina Piroska (Gina)

published Abstractaphy April 2025

published Drifting Sands

 January 2022 - ed: Adelaide B Shaw