On Longport Jetty

Sunday on the Jersey shore

Let us go for a jaunt on Longport jetty

Our thin peninsula of jagged moss rocks 

Waves crash against the smooth raw surface

Blue against the slippery black

Between the cracks is danger upon each step

Will you take my hand and lift our spirits

Over the Jersey shore Sunday tranquil calm

Feelings settle there at the end of time

A sleepy sun sets, yawning down seconds

There is more love found in the simpler pleasures

Salty pungent smells well up in memory

Spread joy over the jetty evening dusk

As seagulls swoop down for a crust of bread

Bent wings skilled at catching

Beaks refuse to lose one single morsel to the sea

Hold on or the winds will carry you away