Breathing

Waves crack against cliffs
and pour into sea caves
carving new and deeper hollows.
Emerald pools shiver
and drown in darkness,
boulders, stones, sand
fallen still before draining.
Walls of polished lava
twist upward in a throat,
through a blowhole 
roaring rainbows
to mist the sky with salt.

Scott Speck
07/05/99