JUST ADD WATER
Along the beach’s neon cosmos,
Looking for something to perfect,
Inner tubes and cosmo’s,
Summer girls in retrospect;
Reading the orange palms to make
A lifetime out of towels and pails,
to marry for the ocean’s sake,
For the torches and the sails;
And one of you, my dream:
Not from here and not like this,
But the future was the same -
An adolescent heartbeat and a kiss.
Waikiki
July 8th, 2006