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              Persistence

                               dunes, perlubie beach

I.

Sisypharean grains of sand roll up to dune's apex         there are those

that roll back    those that fall off the edge of a world                and a few

[like molecules bypassing liquefaction transforming directly, solid to gas]

ejected into atmosphere        a leap of faith      fleeing a great australian bight.

II.

 

vertebrae honed to a point

backbone's ridge disintegrating

the sharp edge loses focus

drifts off

bleeding into sky

III.

 

these microboulders rolled

up and over

knife's crest

 

southern ocean Sisyphus

time's lesson in

persistence

 

a parable of sand

 

this relentless wind

air molecules

drum ears and hollows

roar defiance

 

as sirens

beckon sailors,

 

move mountains

a grain at a time