<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546358" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beach Liaison</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Foamy, frothy blue-green silk sea drapes over freckled, speckled skin<br>A face bare, wet and rough, a complexion bleached by sun, sea, salt <br>Barren on the surface yet life breathes free in cracks and crannies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Underneath the craggy covering he hides in slender shell<br>His caramel body is smooth, supple as he slips into the<br>Spiral sheath to the sharp pointed end of the day when, at tides</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Edge, the sea caresses pink coral reef sky as day submits<br>To darkness, concealing intimate silhouettes of lovers<br>Embracing among the shadows of sea grapes and dune grasses</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At dusky brink between day and night sea birds flit<br>Kingfishers’ white feathers flutter away from lapping sea tongue <br>A salty kiss on parched lips and on sandy cheeks communicates</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A silent poem song in language like Sanskrit scratched out with<br>Bird claw quills on sand skin a dry and rough parchment while the small<br>Kingfisher flock pecks away without wit into gritty flesh </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To slurp up his mollusk body like salt-water taffy pulled<br>Out of its wax paper wrapped up tight but never feeling safe<br>Sharp pecking beak finds his soft snail soul plucked from firm, corkscrew case</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In bird beak swallowed whole he prays: I’ve already been in heaven <br>Though tragedy sweeps away all that is real and some things imagined<br>Always in my heart I will carry sunshine and silken sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Laura+Pariseau">Laura Pariseau</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546358" data-title="Beach Liaison de Laura Pariseau" data-description="Foamy, frothy blue-green silk sea drapes over freckled, speckled skin A face bare, wet and rough, a complexion bleached by sun, sea, salt Barren on the surface yet life breathes free in cracks and crannies Underneath the craggy covering he hides..."></div> </div> </div>

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