Fay Slimm.

Beach-Combing

 

Beach-Combing

 

No shells today after the gale

but huge mole-hilly
bunches of mermaid\'s long hair

were trailing
the beach in tide-circled piles.

Everywhere I found discarded

remnants of old
Neptune\'s party where

maidens flung aside

ribbons in seaweedy waves as
they all danced wildly.

Poets love beach-combing finds.