New Tracks - Newton Smith

[Larry Robinson]

New Tracks

All that marks the rain-pocked sand
are the small holes of sand crabs,
the occasional scallop shell, a beached
jellyfish and the skidding foam from the tide.
 
On the sandbar a line of pelicans
stand watch as the sandpipers swarm
the edge of the water like ants
as the whitecaps trace the horizon.
 
The rain has passed for now
and the clouds are breaking overhead,
moving off like the tide withdrawing.
The blue beyond is a depth we don’t know.
 
When the tide comes in, all this
will be swept away again
and the beach will be cleared
for a new day and new tracks in the sand.
 
	- Newton Smith
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