Tag: beach

  • Goddess of the Beach by Zack Taft

    Goddess of the Beach by Zack Taft

    She settled herself into the warm sand; her eyes closed for a moment. It felt like a dream. She was barefooted and wearing a red dress, a floppy straw hat, and oversized sunglasses.             “Grampa, will you stop that?” He was doing an embarrassing dance on the white sand, mumbling…

  • The Seagull’s Harmonica by D.C. Houston

    The Seagull’s Harmonica by D.C. Houston

    On this walk, as with all days,I move,until the moon,usurps the sun.The songs of life ongoing,do their best, to fill the barren space,you once occupied.Is it hubris,to say, you are the best there ever was.Daydreams of our eleventh hour,what I could have articulated, differently.How life could change so irrevocably in…

  • At the Beach When I Was Young by Lois Perch Villemaire

    At the Beach When I Was Young by Lois Perch Villemaire

    I’m longing to kick up my legs and perform a series of perfect cartwheels in the sand, all the way to shoreline, where tiny ripples appear passive and harmless, then march into the salty ocean until it’s too deep and I have to swim breaststroke beyond white sudsy foam icing, over the crests of…