Sand.
Salt sand.
Surf-sounded, soft, solid sand.
Sun splashed, sodium-seasoned sand.
Shifting, sifting, smooth, stable shore-sand
Swirling, stinging, swift-stabbing, shining, shaping, swinging, swimming sand.
Most nearly everlasting universal fragment of earth.
Sea-scouring, several sided,
Sweat-scented,
Sand.
-eab, 7/1971
Written while living in Paris,Ohio