Roy Herndon Smith
on Montauk the waves
swell roll break crash rush run still
always always there
always always new
run still pull back swell roll crash
like repeating words
rising ebbing words
recollecting absent waves
recalling crashes
returning stillness
of the momentary new
of the present there
overwhelming there
the speaking silence of words
filling with the new
swelling rolling wave
the empty curve of stillness
breaking and crashing
the remembered crash
into the splash of the there
vanishing in still
forming worlds of words
swelling into rolling waves
breaking onto new
expanses of new
silences stretching crashes
into rushing waves
of remembered theres
the sound of the absent words
nothing at all still
in sweeping stillness
of the ever moving new
swelling sense of words
rolling in crashing
in the wordless senseless there
whispering a wave
stillness in crashing
the always new breaking there
again of words waves
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