walked across the dunes to the light house to clear my thoughts.
the windsailors were riding the sky, my son calls them the teabag people. but to me they are like those seed pods that coast upon the wind in search of something beyond.
the grass soughs and if you sit quietly enough, you can hear the hungry cry of the little tern chicks. hidden in the dunes nearby.
the sand trickles through twining, grasping, tenuous grass roots, single grains multi-hued, flow like minature snowboarders down the dunes, steep slippery slide. little metallic black ants have the herculean task, of working this ***** for seeds and other oddments of food. i watch one stumble,stomp past, sherpa-like, precariously balancing a potato crisp's crumb. while scaling the acute angle of sliding sand.
the pittering of the sandy ground indicates the presence of giant skinks, sleek glassine skinned lizards that are at home in the area. their track patterns, remind me of those old teach yourself to dance charts seen in black and white films, you would now find them mostly in antique stores.
the tide is in recess and the terns are hunting, mottled little sand ***** in some killer, crazy game of tig or redrover. where to lose is to looose!
the windsailor above is surpassed by the big old seahawk as he stretches his wings. it is a comparison of true mastership, over a poor and gaudy parody. the hawk with practised disdain, dives, through the breakers emerging, with his fish dinner.
as i turn toward home. i wonder, was it the fandango the lizards, were trying to master?