from “poems for a brown eyed girl”

She loved 

the sea. 

She knelt 

on her knees

in the water, 

and felt 

the swirl 

around her legs 

as it moved 

back and forth, 

in and out, 

with the tide. 

She tasted 

the salt 

as it splashed 

against her body 

and broke apart 

into a thousand drops 

that caressed her face 

and touched her lips. 

She listened 

to the elemental song 

as it shushed the evening 

with a lullaby 

sung

for ages. 

She looked 

with brown eyes

at the shades of blue 

as it moved gently 

toward the horizon 

and the sky.

- Trevor Scott Barton, poems for a brown eyed girl, 2018