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Poem and photograph by Kaitlyn Lafferty

I remember lying

in littoral sunrise

pastel pink ribbons cashing

your humming breakers

we lay softly surrounding

warmly our bare chests flooding

in early morning light

only then

upon standing

on buckling legs

again knee deep

drowning in heavy chests

vast swallowed bogs

i reverted with fearful longing

to ignoring a heart apart

i stood at shore

wrapping still space in

quiet callings

sparse and incomplete

baring vastness

of the sea

on sorry shoulders

on sorry knees