Poem: Bricks on Beach

 

Bricks on Beach

 

rolled like dough,

leavened by bubbly combers

and yeasty slaps of brine,

 

these scattered stashes 

of once-towered treasures

left over when prosperity caved.

 

sullen, pitted, wind-mocked,

not-so-modern now,

this plateau of the broken:

nuggets of castles, crushed idols,

eremites on weathered shards  

of barnacled piles.

a chartreuse crab

fat as a silver dollar

ambles over the stubs.

 

bladderwrack flogs them.

a pillory of gulls

swoops to berate.

ever so quiet,

a single pristine rectangle 

hides its rusty fame.

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6/20/24 ...edits

4/8 took  out an adjective

1/1/23  more changes later in the day ... 

1/1/23  massive changes to the crap awful poem