By Toklas
Date: 20 February 2000

Sea of Love

Bathing in the deep shadows
Where desultory beds of  kelp wander
Gently over the lonely rocks 

Falling in the boundless, faithful current 
--Oh feather in the wind !
Clutching nothing,  Being struck naked ...

Gaze inward on those briny clouds 
Awaken  like sunset-fired lightning
Shot through crystal shoals.

By tender eddies,  by  sleeping fires
Branded mirrors of the self  unwrap
Burned blissful candle-bright--
                     So brilliant is  the sea!