by Ron Singer.
1.
If an offshore rock
is washed by a wave,
and the wave, outgoing,
like a hand, scoops sand
over the rock,
sure, water and sand
(and salt, sun, and wind)
over a time,
concertedly,
turn rock to sand.
II.
If a cloud sails past
out toward the sea,
and people on shore
look up from lunch,
from projects in sand,
castles and sketches,
someone will say,
“An amoeba, a turtle,
the nose of a giant!”
Yes, someone will certainly
claim that they see
a meaningful shape
or congruency.
III.
When thecloud has sailed
far out to sea,
sooner or later
it comes down as rain,
enters a wave
that rolls back in,
even to the rock
(which does, after all,
look like a turtle),
washes it clean,
speckles its top,
or even, by now,
turns it to sand.