Six girls

1.     wade and clamber
   

past poison oak

1.     rocking logs
   

across the creek

1.     echoes laughter.
   

They squat on rocks

            settle on gospel -

haunting, undulating notes

            rise and fall.

It’s a

            pizza

chatter

            make-up

play

            overnight.

Trampoline

            voices spin

and somersault

            startling

suspended sunset.

Gleeful rolling

            down sand-hills

hurtling wings

            roaring waves.

Dune grass dew

            billowing softly as hair

reminds me

            of dearest you

shelter to

            such a gracile flower.