Soft-focus

I’ve been thinking of walking

with you to the beach

because it's there I’d like to see you,

I’d weave in and out the waves with you,

And you’d wet your feet

as I laugh like a crashing gul.

and as it began to rain some

soft and easy arpeggio

I’d capture you forever

legendary like the Leitz thamber 90mm

the epitome of soft-focus, before high street

snappers, lost forvever that edge of 30s cool.

And I’d keep you there, in my image,

to look back on after the waves have advanced

higher than nostrils

when all we hear is the

laughing of crashing guls.