Mogushi Beach (Kumamoto, Japan)

What was once molten
is now frozen.
You’ve kept your faces so long to see me!
Goggled eyes and agape water-
mouths–depressions, obsessions
of features: noses, ears, feet,
all discarded as the inspiration of an
era “posh today, gone in a
millenium.” Your toothless lips
apologize. Don’t.
I love you all. For so
long, I’ve faced the guardian
of two samurai boys poised
in combat. I’ve been apart,
been a dream in their periphery
of topography that I would
kiss you even as the sand is
black and the waves break
to scare us.