It's Still Life

On the Beach

On that bright August day
I stood before the Atlantic
with its slow sloping depths

and cliffs and plateaus,
where deepest blues are
as black as a Merlin’s trick,

and as the sea delighted
my toes, I watched each
wave track along the sand.

Artwork is mine, Midjourney rendering. ©Misky 2022 Written for dVerse Quadrille 161 Tracking. Shared with #amwriting on Twitter