WON’T FORGET

1.

I won’t forget the ocean’s color,

the seagulls’ urgent cries,

each footprint on the sand

lost and lingering, don’t want

ice cream to melt so hopelessly in broiling sun,

the hours hopelessly dissolved

Soon we diminish, ebbing waves,

never to break again

on this rocky shore

Is it possible to freeze

a last oceanic undulation

and keep you

In vain cry the gulls

I won’t forget our steps,

one after one

merging in sand

like broken shells

2.

Spread the tongue,

let honey-walnut ice cream roll

sweetness over tastebuds

Let sunlight on this pathside bench

warm us like that green orchid tree

After sunset

the carved window

open as an oyster to the sea

We share

each other

3.

Is it possible

I promised you a skyful of soft silk,

its veil stitched with colored threads

Gulls call like like in the distance

so not to disturb us

Dogs and surfing kids drift home

from the seaside, leaving the soft spray

You were here then,

on a beach where wild geese fattened,

our slumber

deepened by the waves

Sunset’s sail crosses that far shore,

drops anchor, promises to unfurl

some day, if not tomorrow