Thick warm sea breeze
Lightning strobes through
Freckles of stars
Cicada songs ride waves
While memories float wistfully
Along with hopeful dreams and visions
Children sleep heavy breath
Hearts light from ocean play
Family who stay through storms
Inner outer
Banks of feeling
Needing
Wanting
Impatient they cry their song
Shaking and quaking like cracks
Of thunder over thunderous crash of
Saline waters
We swim together
Holding wading and waiting
To come up for air
Where
Life beckons
Keep becoming
A new thing
And like cicadas we join voices
And sing
The ash of one life rejoices
Riding waves into a sunset of forever horizon
What a wonderful world
Jaclyn Edds Konczal | July 2023
for Dave Edds