Slope and Loom

Parson's Beach, Maine

I have found the place i wasn't meant to find,

Low tide on the stoney coast far out

Where the sky and the sea are all one shadow––

My past stretches from here to there and back:

Shifting surface of my own kind,

Heaving slope and loom of ghosts.

In this jumbled ruin of nature i wait

For the crest of that old wave to reclaim me.

–Mashup from the works of Robin Robertson