subtext

Among the detritus flecked with sand:

opaquely polished pop bottles, wood

from worlds away, tangled plastic

fishing line, damp beach towels,

beer bottles, wet fast-food boxes,

jelly fish lying flat as if defenestrated,

all coyly draped in sea-weed strands

like bathing beauties in the sun,

unmediated beneath an infinite blue sky

streaked in fading traces of smoke.