Avila Beach

"Avila Beach"

 

Heating the sand on Avila beach the sun’s rays affectionately oozed down across the shoreline. The sand loosened and embraced the relief of morning. 

Night had been almost unbearable with how relentless the frigid ocean’s flagrant rendezvous with the moon was. It always rushed up and over the minute the moon showed, pulling itself closer to the rocky walls that lined the back of Avila. All night long, every night, the waves and the moon would dance a repugnant worship of each other. The moon silent but overbearingly present and the waves roaring and jumping up towards the dark sky.

Jostling the sand with its might the wave’s eagerness would squish the shore into itself leaving a glossy smoothed surface on top almost similar to that of burnt skin. Rare pockets of icy air would float over so that the sand could desperately gasp and wheeze before being submerged again. There was no rest until the ocean rambunctiously dragged away swelling up into itself. Even then though the brief break of torment was ruined marred by the biting wind. 

The raw and pressed sand fumed at the waves’ child-like recklessness. With blatant disregard the ocean would dive forward, crashing and mightily roar at the moon submerging the sand over and over again. Night fall was oppressive and seemed never ending. 

Faint pink wisps that painted the lightening sky called out to the sand in a lionhearted gesture. The sun’s brightening light dismissed the moon and snapped at the ocean to mind itself. The ocean recoiled away from the rocky walls of Avila though it spit in protest doing so. The sand of Avila beach sighed in the calm of the morning as if to shake off its mortification from surviving the night. Knowing night fall was only hours away left a bad taste in the air but for now it could rest and decompress.

Author's Note

I cannot seem to match all the tenses. I am not sure how to present this. The form seems to being going in two directions. One as a summary of the night's events and two as a live action play by play on how the night's events effect the sand.

Critic welcomed.