Surfer Girl

Photo by City of Gold Coast on Unsplash

She rises from the sea, sun-blond, green-eyed,
Freckle-tanned.  Birthed of kelpy gods, the stuff
Of sea-foam and jade-green irridescence.
Mother-of-pearl abalone-shell maiden,
Who glides upon the swells, the endless swells
Which promise her the perfect set to ride
Into the barrel to emerge again
From the sea, sun-blond, green-eyed Aphrodite.

The salt spray fetched to the shore may well be
The tears of men and boys who watch, mourning.
Know her heart will never belong to earth
Or the creatures who dwell upon it.
She is of the sea and the windy fetch
Of the breakers.  She resides only in motion
As the sea always swells and swells again
As her heart beats only for the set, the drop,
This child of kelpy gods, mother-of-pearl
Sea-foam abalone-shell maiden.