The ocean still spits up toys and shoes
years after the hurricanes blew threw.
The erosion of sand below the water and
on the beach display other sadnesses.
The unwanted apostrophe between sea and shore,
the warning red sky and the calm cerise night
breaks into crescents on the bay,
each moonbeam an invisible memory.
The union of jealous wind and angry water
has left these ruins for the ignorant to fear.
“Death is part of life’s grammar”, it tells
the gulls to caw to the slate figures below.
Notes:
There are two forms of apostrophe being addressed in the poem:
1. The grammatical punctuation that can indicate possession or omission or separation.
2. The poetic term which is a literary device in which the speaker addresses either an absent person or a non-human object, idea, or being. Hear the idea is reversed= the ocean and wind is addressing the humans below.
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