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Good Harbor Beach
1 min readOct 7, 2020
Summer at the beach —
sapphire footsteps wash away
with the tide’s return.
Holes dug by children
in a coarse afternoon wind
slowly fill with sand.
A gull watches us
drunk on an infinite breeze
pull words from a book.
Back and forth they go
swimming in the cold water
until the sun falls
and the people leave
plucking low chairs from the sand
while the ocean sets.
© Trapper Markelz 2020
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