Tide is rising
and the craggy pools
where craggy animals had hidden
all alone against the scrutiny of sky
begin to have connections —
water seeping in
as if from nowhere,
channels forming,
tenuous potential
for some long-forgotten
kind of joining . . .

And then suddenly
there is no separation at all —
waves rush over everything
and they are all united
in the common deep.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 5, 2014