Beach

you should be careful around
the oceans inside your shoes

they can drown you

there is nothing to absorb them
even socks     even artificial sponge

they fill your shoes every time you walk
then     after you’re used to that
they fill them every time you think
then your thoughts walk
carry you to the edge of an ocean
you couldn’t have imagined otherwise

it’s the loneliness there
the loneliness there that can drown you

from Yew Nork (2014)