Our sand-castles sit along the beach
in sight of waves, cool and vast,
inching toward the shore.
We place a flag atop our turret made
of sand-speck and watch it
unfurling in the balmy sea-air.
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And we play among the clouds,
watching the shapes and kicking over other,
less impressive sand-castles
with flags now flapping down along the beach
like paper-trail, spinning staff over cloth
as the tide comes further up the shore––
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