The sea is good medicine after a heart attack. This is how you do it, heart. Listen to this unceasing rhythm.

Flowing in, pouring out. Pushing and pulling. Kissing the shore, then dancing away.

Like Shabbes

followed by week

followed by Shabbes

followed by week

forever and ever.

Slipper shells and pebbles of quartz and granite tumble against the shore.

Then pull away. Then return.

A distant seawall marks the horizon.

The tug and release pulls at my ankles, shifting the ground beneath my feet.

Months from now there will still be grains of sand in my car.