A Summer Vacation In August For You

If you can’t make it to the beach this summer, here are 10 poems about that lovely feeling.

August

the soft warm numbing buzz

of a comfortable beach vacation intoxication…

Shipwrecks

tanning bodies on the beach like shipwrecks of economic stress

just enough sun to get them through another year

of chasing too many things.

Vengeance Tempest

the shallow cerulean is usually half a mile out

before the darker deep

but it’s a windy day on the beach so the sea colors are abused

and the wind grabs my collar

bullies me from my wicker sofa in the sun

in retreat to the cafe overlooking violent surf

which I hope is smashing the jellyfish

that stung me around my ankle yesterday in the calm.

Daytona Beach

there is a riptide warning and the children

wearing floaties and water shoes with noodles under arms