Biscuits

Sand in your teeth
sun on my shoulder
lie in the water
comparing toes

sunblock
sun oil
straw hat
your big glasses
my striped blue towel
and I'm glad
you are

Roald Dahl
Eric Clapton
ants biting my ankle
wedgie
biscuits and Hoho's
Damien Rice singing
"You give me miles and miles of mountains and I ask for the sea"
stars under clouds

hot wind
cobblestone path

cut my toe on a rock
climbing the hill
to watch the sun set
the sea turn purple
the corals turn blue
here
with you

photographs and minispeakers
your guitar playing while I pray
lipbalm
and toothbrush
candles burning down
walking for miles and miles in the water
but never reaching the sea
you hold my hand
even though I'm right there
will not leave you
but still you hold on