Salt

In the song I chose today
it’s the ocean
three times
that carries us out.
É o mar
É o mar
É o mar
que carrega a gente
para a gente pescar…
but today it isn’t about the fisherman.
Or the salty seawater,
or the tears on shore.
It is Tides. Today
It’s about the Tides.
Beyond our sense and best interest
there’s a whole territory
of salt.
Castles of salt where
he’s deposited life
in salt forms.
So much so that
if the light refracts right
It’s furious and pretty.
The tides must have
arrived and receded
a million times
to leave him with
this much material.
But it wasn’t all his doing,
or the ocean’s three visits.
There were friends
and oceans came from their eyes.
How kind, to include
me among them.
So many of us
still not sure
what to do…
with all this salt.