Shoreline, aquamarine and stained
with fossilised bones and mangled driftwood.
Scavenging crabs mingle
in the oasis of rotting fish.
Balding gulls and ocean-going vultures
perch on the prize,
a skeletal whale carcass putrefying the sand.
The surf boils over along stove rocks.
Out in the depths beyond the reef,
beyond the boundary of bleach-white coral
the sharks blend into the gloom.
Where pallid sunlight is extinguished
beats with no need for sight
wait to rise from their domain.
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