Shadow And Light

The time between land and sea
Living out life in the reckoning
Of cells and sands
So removed from God's expansion
So near creation
What is there to remind us of
The sun or the holy palms
Mired on the restless dune
Shifting like shapes
In the murky deep
Just beyond the reef
The faint scent of lemonade
Or the scratch of the wind
On a popcorn sky
Let us forget
All that we know
And get down to
The business
Of shadow and light