Other Shores

some people get lost in the tides
of their own shores
that they neglect other beaches

What Beach Do You Find Yourself On?

Her arm was criss-crossed the same way
lanes of a freeway are by skidding tires.
Defensive sleeves kept questions at bay,
except for the questions about the sleeves.
She wouldn't show everyone her quiet smile,
I saw it more than once.

The end was a declarative sentence uttered
on a drive home. We don't have to be stranded
from a 6 hour tour to be castaways. Currents move
with unseen stealth. The seaweed never knows
what beach it will wash ashore on.

beaches

Grains of sand pouring from my mouth,

I turn the ground around me into sandy

shores, missing only the tides.