The Sands.

This breathless dream of night
surrounds me again
when I least expect it:

inlet waters 
current through waves of moonlight
toward distant marsh grasses

as skies open to thousands of stirring
planets visible against a black possibility.

I want to save myself from time,
which could never be
this instance of wind
and darkness and luminosity

or as vital as the susurrant echo of the present:

a constant breeze against my body--
moving in space, humming through trees--
always dissolved before it ever exists.

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