Written in the Current

I wrote your name in the sand

that was washed away with the tide

So instead I wrote it in the sea

To swirl like the flowing current

To recall every syllable in each wave

I wrote your name in the sea

And shot fiery arrows from my heart

They are the light of my memories of you

Playing in the the surf

Diving into what the sea creates

As if created just for you

Your watery playground

Our floating bed

where strangers took pictures of us

embracing each other, a diphthong

under the Hawaiian moonlight

I wrote our names in the sea that night

using moonbeams and starlight for ink

I wrote in spindrift and sprinkled it onto the sea

In the calligraphy of sandpipers