Step into the water
So cold the bones would ache
Bones would wake
Numbed skin in the hot sun
What were I then
Caught between the dunes and shore
What do I have to say for myself
Often asked
Answered by silence or
“I don’t know.”
I learned not to answer the question
I told the answers to the sand
I buried the answers in the sand
I drowned the answers in the freezing waters
Near dunes superior
I rolled the answers down the sand hills
I stomped the answers on wooded foot paths
I sent the answers to the moon
I hid the answers high among the branches of the trees
Where are the answers now
Haunting places
Ghostly shadows of the past
Hidden by sunlight
The reflection off cold waters
I climbed to the top of the dunes
And smiled to hide the hiding
