Foam falls from slick rock
A rabid shoreline
Granite grimace
Unquenched by brine

Echoes web in their cracks
Debris of a ruined life
Laughter drowning
It’s dead, see?

Lighthouse bends 
A glare, a salvo, doom
Boiling horizon scarlet
Gull and gill get their fill

Sunset splinters infinite
Thousands of ghosts
Snuff out like camera flashes
Still lives of still lives

Passerby in a riptide
Gone with the flow
Yesterday, tomorrow
Fetal, brittle bone

Whelk and cockle
Tooth and nail
Sediment and sentiment
Time and tide