TO A STRANGER ON A BEACH
by Nathan Graham
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Poetry
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I shall arrange the shattered shells
prettily on the rippled sand
a fractured mosiac of broken homes
of broken creatures made victim to the cycle
that is unrelenting as the tides, the waves, their whisper.
I'll make a drawing in pen
that does not depict the ocean
so much as reflect it -- translate it
from a tremendous titan of roaring hushes
to whatever it is in my mind.
And when you have come upon
my meaningless array of bleached-white shells,
maybe we both will be thinking
of someone we know
who is a small and broken used-up shard with pretty stains
lying (like Buddha under his tree,
like Christ on his stick) motionless
on the long ocean's shore.
back to top
prettily on the rippled sand
a fractured mosiac of broken homes
of broken creatures made victim to the cycle
that is unrelenting as the tides, the waves, their whisper.
I'll make a drawing in pen
that does not depict the ocean
so much as reflect it -- translate it
from a tremendous titan of roaring hushes
to whatever it is in my mind.
And when you have come upon
my meaningless array of bleached-white shells,
maybe we both will be thinking
of someone we know
who is a small and broken used-up shard with pretty stains
lying (like Buddha under his tree,
like Christ on his stick) motionless
on the long ocean's shore.
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