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Our grand-daughter: two years old at Port Elliot

 

The running edge of the tide breaks

and folds its length onto the sand.

She stands and lets the shallow wash of the waves

touch her tentative toes,

absorbing experience,

thoughts as formless as the sea.

 

Later, she will add form to experience

and be grown.

Now, she is all awareness.

The surge and suck of the tide.

The shifting sand.

A world without edges.

 

© Neil Quintrell 1988