Immense Blue

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Gaze out — eyes wide —

into the cold,

enfolding

blue.

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A blue of bones

and skies

and hollow shells,

forged like steel,

deep

as every ocean ever dreamed.

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This blue turns grey —

sharp, metallic, —

sudden, flashing

like the breath

of distant stars.

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It breaks across the surface,

sinks into the skin,

like a quiet love

lost in wave-crash

and our salt-surge.

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You feel it now —

thick and alive,

churning in your own silent core.

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Gaze deeper,

with storm-thought eyes,

into the old, unblinking gaze

of the elements —

and know the cold,

and brilliant,

immeasurable blue.

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from ‘Gathered on this Beach’ collection , revised ed. using chatgpt ‘25

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