Ocean Grove. Sept. 2010. Two years prior to Sandy. Paul Goldfinger photo
Absence
A poem by Charles Pierre
Of what was written down
or spoken aloud onshore,
eye and ear find scant remains
A few letters in the sand
or murmurs on the salt wind
show, not who was here,
but how the sea
swallows up
most human traces.
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA "Enigma Variations."