When I look at ocean
chop
I see mountains forming and subsiding,
geologic time collapsed in the blink of an
eye.
The rock in the background is two million
years old,
the wave that dashes against it breaks for
two seconds.
In the last hundred years life expectancy
has roughly doubled
but people live four times as fast. The days
here are extra long,
perhaps because there's so little to look at
that doesn't belong. Or
maybe because I don't talk much, minutes
linger in tranquil thought.