On the Shore

Sarah Russell

The 3rd of my poems published by Verse-Virtual. There are so many beautiful poems in this issue. I’m honored to be among them.

Seaweed calligraphy at the tide’s edge.
A crab tracks through, smears the ink.
I wait for the fog to lift. The gulls argue
over someone’s sandwich crust, get on
with survival. I remember your words,
the undertow.

26 thoughts on “On the Shore”

  4. This is so beautiful and makes me so homesick for the Southern Atlantic Coast, where I grew up. I’m especially fond of the laughing gulls and the salty air that made my first visits to the Pacific Coast a bit disappointing.

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  7. This is so beautiful – your eye for the small lives so many dont realise are there. And then the undertow of remembered words. Really lovely.

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