Title may be misleading and I need help with stanza breaks... AND, anything else you suggest. Dewell
Garden Gate
hangs half open
sagging
scrapes a semicircle
on the ground
hinges creak
in a turtle wind
departed bathers
empty beach
sky darkens
settles
hugs the sea
waves
remembered by foam
erase plover etchings
sand dunes
creep
toward the gate
claim
their heritage
ocean sculpts the land.
Dewell H. Byrd
Garden Gate
hangs half open
sagging
scrapes a semicircle
on the ground
hinges creak
in a turtle wind
departed bathers
empty beach
sky darkens
settles
hugs the sea
waves
remembered by foam
erase plover etchings
sand dunes
creep
toward the gate
claim
their heritage
ocean sculpts the land.
Dewell H. Byrd