Shipwreak – by JW Burns

The surf immune to love;
wind bursts below a helicopter, blades spilling
confession over the waves without memory.
Gone, the rotors bequeath belligerent silence.
Pelicans designing divinity in prehistoric sunshine.
The tide takes away disbelief as if it were sand,
leaves a wooden nail embedded in a piece of plank.

JW Burns lives in Florida.