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Seaside Sketch

January 14, 2012 by Kenneth Hart

Seaside Sketch

 

Still life blankets

concentrated on the brown skin shore

watching smiling circles

growing large and then smaller.

 

Kris runs to the waves and then sits

until the water kisses her and she yells “Yay!”

and runs back to her muddy brother Bobby’s holes in the sand

which he calls castles.

 

Lucille and Rosemary, greased for the sun

talk under the music

lying about their husbands, children and things that they don’t like.

 

The sun teases and pulls freckles

Like a mind remembering

 

Aunt Sophie, wrapped like a mummy,

on a plastic and metal chaise

disguising a flower sweetness, extinguishing.

 

Squealing delight

Miguel holds cold water over Immaculada’s chest

And chases her while Brad and Brian watch her champion ass

escaping happily.

 

Monica’s face got hit,

like a newly cracked facade,

she stares spitefully at strangers.

Her nose is sore and hot.

Then Sandy’s mother brings French fries,

ketchup and a cup of crushed ice.

 

James and Teresa reach for a sun

That trails like the veins of a feather.

 

Six- o’clock watchers

anciently stare to the water

like something that they don’t want to leave.

The crowd of boardwalk walkers

feel good about their showers and dry clothes

when they stare at the beach.

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