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Tag: beach

acquisition

Poetry by Charlie Steak

walking
on the beach
I pick up shells
at the surf line
each tiny, perfect
(to me at any rate)
          pale petal pink
delicate, ridged, lined,
          butter paper yellow
rinsed in swirling water,
eluding my fingertips
          chalkboard black
I have no purpose
for this handful of
          bleached white
deserted homes,
is it ungrateful
to re-scatter
I’ll keep
one


Charlie Steak is an author and playwright currently living in the southwest USA. The winters are great but gardening in summer resembles Armageddon. Or maybe Mordor. He has written for Space 55, Synthetic Human, Rising Youth Theatre, and many other organizations. His poetry will be published in Constellations this winter.

Below Beach Sands

Poetry by Ed Higgins

feeding sanderlings rush
along the tide’s wet sand

sand-colored mole crabs
burrow quickly below the swash

maximizing their escape—
like the burrowing crabs

I sink below sloshing surfaces
backward into ovid breathing holes

barely remembering which way
is up, wanting protection,

leaving few marks to reveal
my fears, eyes alert

as predatory birds plunge
their digging beaks


Ed Higgins‘ poems and short fiction have appeared in Monkeybicycle, Danse Macabre, Ekphrastic Review, and Triggerfish Critical Review, among others. Ed is Asst. Editor for Brilliant Flash Fiction. He has a small farm in Yamhill, OR, raising a menagerie of animals—including a rooster named StarTrek.

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