Everywhere and Nowhere

I wrote this one on a recent visit to Busselton. I was there for about 5 days and I walked the beach mornings and evenings. I think it is the most unbroken stretch I have spent by the sea in my life. Time of day, weather and my emotional load changed and so did the sea, meeting me newly each visit. This is a window into one moment.

Everywhere and Nowhere

I am immersed
In the salt seaweed air
On the edges of the ocean.
Bowing with the waves
Relentlessly dying on the shore.

And out there
Beneath the restless rippling surface;
The deep blue.
It doesn’t call me.
It just asserts its presence.

And right here
In gulls’ caw
Dried sea grass
The bite of the morning sun
And this poet
Perched upon a rock.