Beach Song
Escape to the Beach
Escape from the abstract into reality
Escape from introversion to extroversion
The warm turquoise water splashes underfoot and rolls off my feet between my toes
The waves, heaved upward offshore by the reef roll in and crash several feet off shore
The wave transcends a fractal with all its pin pricks of foamy turbulence
Millions of molecules aware of each others presence or absence.
Unpredictable in its uniqueness
Never to be repeated, never seen before
Transient and beautiful yet elusive and temporal
The wave reaches farther up the beach, and traces out a smooth continuous line.
Any mathematical approach is only approximate.
Each curve is unique in detail
Never quite the same, never seen before
Transient and mocking yet curiously similar
The reef offshore is dappled with shades of indigo and turquoise
There are jellyfish and humpback whales farther out
Never the same, never seen before
Transient and rare yet familiar and mysterious
If you filmed the breaking waves all day, and tried to apply mathematics
It would be a fools’ game
Because sometimes the waves collude
Sometimes they interfere
The wind changes
The tide changes
The shoreline changes
Some is sand and some is rock
There is always geology
Never seen before, never to be repeated
Transient and immortal yet intuitive as life itself
Like footprints in the sand
Like mist on the lake
Like fog in the valley
Filling in the gaps to achieve a gestalt.
