“With Tropical Ease”
Salty lips soothed
by a steady breeze
that sweeps
west to east.
Tight salty flavour
grains of sand between teeth,
all passive
crabs flutter by.
Rumbles from the sea
not a wave in sight
lazy motors
slowly. slowly.
by David Bugg (2011)
(Written whilst chilling on a beach in Zanzibar the day before my wedding)
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