ground hardened by frost underfoot
the bluff above the sea
waves in hushed ebb and flow
currents circling above the ocean floor
gathered expectations, accumulated desires, stray dreams
drop into the vast rhythmic pulse
like stones they sink, like debris
that weighed heart and mind
eventually ripples fade
breath matching water’s motion
with empty hands and lightened step depart
able to see the oat grass sway unfrozen now
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