Anthropogenic artefacts Heart attacks hearts attacked Dead calm gyre Tide line debris You and me and I Beach combing the detritus of us and them and they Invasive spaces hidden faces aroma of decay Kicking over seaweed mounds Lost and founds Seeking out sun sparkled jewels the aroma of decay the plastic looks like ruby the netting gossamer light life moves amongst the mass massing moving living and dying I save one shell to liberate the memory To fix it in the opalescent bisque pocketed treasured that tide line left behind remains from us all of us Everyone tries amongst the stinking tangle of uselessness of spoil to see the value to seek and love the life appreciating interpreting beauty in our tideline Personal life left overs the things we leave behind left behind beached beyond doubt dried beyond quenching Those hours objects people and places those cruel elements took away Stripped from us only to dispose of them because they could because we could not stop them Tide line physical metaphorical epitomized by those eyes that shell the reason why walking on beaches makes us feel better