Love Poem: Sea Free
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Written by: Kathryn Sweeney

Sea Free

The waves crashed onto the beach,
becoming translucent blue tunnels as they proclaimed freedom.
Nearby starfish curled into the pink sand, soft as liquid sea glass, wiggling a slow cha-cha as porpoises did a spinning dance, grinning like "through the looking glass" cheshire cats. 
As if he knew she'de go, the curly haired poet of the seventies, her first love, found solace with his friend Jack. Daniels. 
And as if he knew she'de go, the dull husband found a girl ten years younger, whispering sweet nothings into her ears as he white knuckled his buried anger every night. 
And then that boyfriend, the sallow faced Hollywood stand in actor she nicknamed "warbucks" watched her walk away as she clutched a green umbrella he had found  on the ground at the gay parade. She disappeared out of the cab into the San Francisco night, dark with fog tendrils and Golden Gate mystery, lost to him forever.  
She stuck her big toe in the sea. As the dawn broke on the first day of her new life, all she could see was an endless horizon of Pacific blue, her eternal waltzing partner.