July 1st: Canada Day yesterday. And Canada has ocean on three sides which means it’s beach time! At the lake, the swimming hole, or the Ocean. I love watching the waves roll in, trying to decided on the colours in each one, whether they are blue, cyan, green, aquamarine, teal, jade …
THE BLUE PRAIRIE 
that blue stuff going up and down
it’s the ocean hang on
don’t walk on it
Jesus did
and had to CPR Peter
when he followed
don’t jump in the deep
unless you’re Jonah
and understand whales
climb down dip a toe in it
ouch cold
this Pacific
swim in it if you must 
but remember it goes to Japan
too far to run
smells bad if you take it home
in a bucket full of shells
with a single star-fish
first published in Juice
A Summer Father … terse, imagistic lines; … It’s not nostalgia that we experience but quiet, poignant grief. Richard Stevenson
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