NaPoWriMo Day 2: Chicken

Playing catch-up and posting my poems late!

Image copyright Mabh Savage 2023. Image ID: A man in a blue coat, jeans, and grey hat facing away from the camera watching the ocean over a white railing.

He plays chicken with the ocean

Calmly strolling along the promenade

While waves beat a samba

Up the sea wall.

He looks back

And disappears behind a wall of white

Foamy assassin,

Hiding my surely drenched spouse

The surging arm of the ocean slaps down

Dragging its salty palm back to the beach

He grins back at me

Ground sodden

Him lightly sprayed

As if two fists of the sea

Had ground into the concrete

On either side of him

A wall punched in frustration

With no intent to harm

You lucky bastard

I mouth, and grin back

As the sea stretches deep

And lunges again.