Beach Dancing

— by Jennifer and Stanley

December beach
cold sunset and sand
kids jumping

Jostled but warm
inside your purple coat

Next to my heart
where no wind blows
still sandy

Safe from the bonfire
those marshmallows blackened
and burst so fast!

Smoke and clouds
dark against year’s end light

Pounding Pacific waves
wash my paper feet
clean

Stanley puts his feet in the ocean!