Child’s Play

Child’s Play

from Metro

a Traveling Tales of Waybackwhen book

He was here before.

In another life

removed from the

hustle

and bustle of

making

ends, and beginnings

meet. Always

toeing the waterline

as it rises

    rises

rises.

Castles in the sand, king

surveys his land

as the fortifications

lay bare, wasted,

washed up child’s play

sowing his wild oats

and beans and barley grow

but nothing

in this barren marsh.


based upon the photo

Dreaming of Sanibel

© Bruce Wallace