Ocean poem

As a teacher-learner, I want to grow as a writer in my own right. My Teach Write writing group set an "ocean poem" challenge inspired by the the book Write the Poem. Here is mine.

Ocean Edges

Scabbed, freckle-speckled knees

dangle

off Pop-Pop's dock as

blue-brown crabs scutter

inches below my toes

in the sandy shallows.

Sure, not far from here 

is a fathomless deep,

breaching whales,

a school of gray fish,

a shark on the hunt, even.

But, near here

is a just a ten-year-old me,

and a place where enormous things

become 

quiet and still.