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May 15, 2024

16th Street Beach Access

We’ve all had moments of synergy when the sum of separate parts is almost overwhelming; and that is what I try to describe in this poem. It was my experience as I walked into a scene of calm, natural beauty at the end of the 16th street beach access.

Magical,
this land’s-end vista
where sky and sea blend
at a hazy horizon
bleached pale blue
by a sun, white-hot not yellow,
no cloud shade
no soft breeze
just this –
a bird,
a boat,
a beach.
I slip off sandals,
sink toes into white sand,
inhale fully, one, deep, breath, then walk slowly
to the edge of cool, rippling water.