Friday, August 17, 2012

Tidal

On the bar of Bar Harbor, Maine, at low tide.




















Red beyond the islands in the sound,

Red a pulse unheard on the machine;

Turn up the music,

Inland and smelling the sea,

Megabytes in time, rolled back and reeling.


Stoneman spread-eagled in the ash,

Eagle spread out against the sky,

The coast, the coast, and the old mountains,

One life in time, in time, time,

Entering the distance, both directions.