the winter anthology
Vol. 5
Marcella Durand
from in this world
previous to ours
Two languages to describe sand, each particle
gold from a distance and when dry stone brown yellow
dusty and all. Stone joined to water on its
tidal journey, becomes salt upon each return
to the shore, opens to sun, heat and comes so close
to melting. And here someone is sitting, watching
the horizon, thinking in halved tongue, odd lines.