Johnson County Library is closed Thursday, June 19 in observance of the Juneteenth holiday.
Ocean wanders in to contemplate me
drafts a verse about my ankles in
twisting foam, scrambles the lines
and forgets. A mirror in the slick
afterthought of water on sand
where my feet sink in soft parchment
clouds, beneath shells and kelp
washed in by the tide
Reflected and reflecting