only a few bright kites
iridescent curved blades
electro-colour shimmers
clasped to the wind
hunting tight scud
over the shallows
criss-cross

their riders taut tethered
scattering foamy trails
trailing hissing spraylets
boards flaying the face off
undulating sea scrolls
in the salt tossed air
of turbulent dreams wild

whilst all along the shoreline
stretching far north and south
blurry columns of figures trudge
through clammy sand
pungent with dross

sand whipped and desiccated destinies
shackled to the windswept footprints
quickly fading of countless
others before