"Of the Sea" by Colleen M. Farrelly

Of the Sea

Moonlight shimmers on the beach as we race towards his Naval base. Sand dollars dot the surf line, relics of the Paleocene. At children's church, they symbolized the Resurrection. Here, it's still. Just memories and our buddy's ghost whispering from the waves.

paddle out

an empty surfboard
and floating leis

as a final set
passes through
Memorial Day dawn

~

Colleen M. Farrelly is a mathematician and haibun poet who's been exploring the universe through mathematics and physics since childhood. She's an amalgam of mystic Jewish/Catholic traditions and mathematician-philosophers like Blaise Pascal, with a deep appreciation for meditation and what she learned about public health and spiritual health from South African village shamans in the mid-2000s.