along the sea shore

By the bedlam of roving
footsteps
the slight shudder of her shoulder
unchains streaming shards
of amber rays oblivious to minds
wandering around.
An unfaltering gaze
pierces distant shores
guarded from meaner sights. In another life,
borrowing a vestige
of loveliness, she
becomes
the carrier for one
poet-son's verse. In
the here and now of my own
wandering she conjures
the whiff of cities distant
and never to be seen. Never
breaking her gaze to meet
another crawling over the serpentine
contours of her back, never choosing to watch
the world watching her as time passes
by, she waits. And the sun sinks
through the tangled
mazes of her hair.