Abacus

Tidal flex and activation
of the ocean
pectoral:

water fingers scratching
in frictionless futility
at land’s ledge of sand.

The living magnet
of the beach;
a nexus of dramatic irony
and scientific insanity,
summer-laced lungs
rattling in gasps
of robotic reverence
for the sky slashed
by a censored sun
bleeding green horizon,
in which soldiers of
the season bathe.

March of The Inveterate.
Addiction by subtraction.
A habit rented
from an angry planet
in a favorable mood.