A Maryland Summer

Our Robin’s nest on twenty-eighth bayside, strung like the Kite’s Loft display. Free and now flowed with the tide, as we watched the sunrise of each day. Center courts of youth and bouncing Penns pushed full throttle jet skis into romances. The moon lit footprints in amends, as Hope laid us down with chances. The sun’s vixens sat on boardwalk benches, their penthouses held one night Seacrets. Tired of searching for pearls in surf’s trenches, an open air preacher passed out leaflets. Dice throws into Fate and riptides, doused by sea foam and sand bars. Eastern block girls ran carousel rides, their accents glazed smiles and fast cars. Ribeye’s and tuna steaks on the grill, Harbor Island’s slow gas dock -- a seventy-foot fishing boat it couldn’t fill. Canvas Sperry’s dried on a sundial clock. The one Turtle that sat near Jamestown, looking up and down coastal highway. The Greenest oasis we could find in uptown, seagulls carried her eggs far away. To days fully lived and expressed. To what was held and what transcends. To goodbyes and route fifty going west. To that summer and all the friends. -------------------------------------------------- Contest: Memories of the Sea Sponsor: Isaiah Zerbst 05.14.15