Wild Through the Sea

Remember the night it snowed
               in a place we were told

                              would never snow
               and like two shadows

cast by a lamp
               standing in the presence

                              of a Greater
               we walked the beach

the sand’s grit limpid
               the expanse of what

                              I didn’t know endlessly
               swallowing the floes

the ocean has always been
               immutable and dumb

                              has always carried on
               past my limitations

though they were many
               though I knew God the way

                              I knew you
               by becoming swallowed

by giving my body over
               to the dead I am

                              a creature after all
               made am made

through no fault
               of my own