Wet sand

pulled grain by grain

around the beach

inland cove

to reaches

far out to sea

 

Sand pulled grain by grain

tossed and thrown

ground down

finer and finer still

taken as mountain

to cliff to bolder to pebble

to a single grain

 

Riven from hard granite

down to mineral dust

wrought by the suppleness

of the sea

and its salty caress

 

Pulled back and forth

by the strings of the moon

so that the oceans

pound the earth

to the pulse of

the moon

to the beat

of the earths core

 

From planet to moon

to sand

all right past

and utterly regardless

of man