Thursday, September 24, 2009

Message in a Bottle

I found their message in a bottle
lying in the warm white sand
signed "Mike and Debbie"
washed ashore by waves and undertow
and something they call "rip tide".

The hotel paper (so delicate in my hands).

And I imagine it must have been written
in front of the sunset
this list of hopes and dreams and fears
and flung fiercely into the ocean
with absolute abandon.